8 beatification causes advance

November 10, 2014

In a November 7 audience with the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Francis approved decrees on the heroic virtues of eight servants of God, who may now be honored with the title “venerable.”

All but one lived during the 20th century.

The eight are

• Bishop Francisco Maximiano Valdés Subercaseaux (1908-82), a Capuchin Franciscan priest who became Bishop of Osorno, Chile;
• Abbot Ildebrando Gregori (1894-1985), abbot general of the Sylvestrine Benedictines;
• Father Raimondo Calcagno (1888-1964), an Italian Oratorian;
• Father John Sullivan (1861-1933), an Irish Jesuit;
• Father Pelágio Sauter (1878-1961), a German Redemptorist missionary in Brazil;
• Jeanne Mance (1606-73), a French laywoman and nurse who founded Quebec’s first hospital;
• Marthe Robin (1902-81), a French laywoman and mystic; and
• Silvio Dissegna (1967-79), an Italian boy who died of bone cancer.

 

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Further information:

• Promulgazione di Decreti della Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi (Holy See Press Office)