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Nine candidates move closer to beatification
October 10, 2017
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CWN Editor's Note: On October 9 the Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved a decree confirming the martyrdom of two Franciscans (Father Tullio Maruzzo and Luis Obdulio Navarro) in Guatemala in 1981.
The congregation also affirmed the “heroic virtue” of seven candidates for beatification: two from Italy and one each from Brazil, Ukraine, Poland, Spain, and France.
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