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DECREES OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE CAUSES OF SAINTS

VATICAN CITY, 10 DEC 2010 (VIS) - Today, during a private audience with
Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of
Saints, the Pope authorised the congregation to promulgate the following
decrees:

MIRACLES

- Blessed Guido Maria Conforti, Italian archbishop-bishop and founder of the
Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions (1865-1931).

- Servant of God Francesco Paleari, Italian priest of the "Cottolengo"
Institute (1863-1939).

- Servant of God Anna Maria Janer Anglarill, Spanish foundress of the Institute
of Sisters of the Holy Family of Urgell (1800-1885).

- Servant of God Marie Clare of the Child Jesus (nee Libania do Carmo Galvao
Meixa de Moura Telles e Albuquerque), Portuguese foundress of the Franciscan
Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (1843-1899).

- Servant of God Dulce (nee Maria Rita Lopes Pontes), Brazilian religious of
the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the
Mother of God (1914-1992).

MARTYRDOM

- Servant of God Alois Andritzki, German diocesan priest who died in the
concentration camp of Dachau (1914-1943).

- Servants of God Jose Nadal y Guiu (1911-1936) and Jose Jordan y Blecua
(1906-1936), Spanish diocesan priests, killed in hatred of the faith during
religious persecution in Spain.

- Servants of God Antonio (ne Miguel Faundez Lopez), Spanish professed priest
of the Order of Friars Minor (1907-1936) and Bonaventura (ne Baltasar Mariano
Munoz Martinez) Spanish cleric of the Order of Friars Minor (1912-1936), as
well as Pedro Sanchez Barba (1895-1936) and Fulgencio Martinez Garcia (1911-
1936), Spanish priests and pastors of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi,
killed in hatred of the faith during religious persecution in Spain.

HEROIC VIRTUES

- Servant of God Antonio Palladino, Italian diocesan priest and founder of the
Congregation of Dominican Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (1881-1926).

- Servant of God Bechara (ne Selim Abou-Mourad), Lebanese religious of the
Basilian Salvatorian Order of the Melkites (1853-1930).

- Servant of God Maria Elisa Andreoli, Italian foundress of the Congregation of
Reparatrix Sisters Servants of Mary (1861-1935).

- Servant of God Maria Pilar of the Sacred Heart (nee Maria Pilar Solsona
Lamban), Spanish religious of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary, Religious
of Pious Schools (1881-1966).
CSS/VIS 20101210 (380)

SUMMARY

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