New Decrees: 4 Canonizations and 78 Beatifications

On Saturday 16 Dec 2006, Pope Benedict XVI authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decrees concerning cases of new 78 beatifications and 4 canonizations.Full text of the news in Czech: HERE.

Vatican: For the miracles at their intercession, these will be canonized:

- Blessed Szymon of Lipnica, Polish priest of the Order of Friars Minor (1439-1482)

- Blessed Antonio de Santa Ana (ne Antônio Galvão de França), Brazilian, priest of the Order of Alcantarine or Discalced Friars Minor, and founder of the Convent of Conceptionist Sisters (1739-1822)

- Blessed Charles of St Andrew (ne Johannes Andreas Houben), Dutch, priest of the Congregation of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1821-1893)

- Blessed Marie Eugenie de Jesus (nee Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou), French, foundress of the Institute of Sisters of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1817-1898)

These Servants of God will be beatified:

* For the miracles at their intercession:

- Carlo Liviero, Italian, bishop of Città di Castello and founder of the Congregation of Little Handmaidens of the Sacred Heart (1866-1932)

- Stanislaus of Jesus Mary (ne Jan Papczyński), Polish, priest and founder of the Congregation of Marian Clerics of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (1631-1701)

- Celina Chludzińska, Polish, widow and foundress of the Congregation of Sisters of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1833-1913)

- Marie Celine of the Presentation (nee Jeanne-Germaine Castang), French, nun of the Second Order of St. Francis (1878-1897)

* Among the new causes to be beatified are 70 martyrs killed during the religious persecution in the 1930s in Spain.

* 4 other Servants of God to be beatified were killed in Brasil:

- Father Manuel Gómez González, Spanish, and Adilio Daronch, Brazilian, both killed in Feijão Miúdo, Brazil, in 1924

- Albertina Berkenbrock, killed in 1931

- Lindalva Justo de Oliviera, killed in 1993 in São Salvador de Bahia

4 more decrees proclaimed the heroic virtues – a decisive step toward beatification – of the Servants of God:

- Mamerto Esquiú, Argentinean (1826-1883), of the Order of Friars Minor, bishop of Cordoba, Argentina

- Salvatore Micalizzi, Italian (1856-1937), professed priest of the Congregation of the Mission

- José Olallo Valdés, Cuban (1820-1889), professed religious of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God

- Stefan Kaszap, Hungarian (1916-1935), novice of the Society of Jesus