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Six candidates move closer to beatification
March 23, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: In a series of decrees issued on March 23, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints confirmed the “heroic virtue” of the following, who will now be eligible for beatification if a miracle is attributed to their intercession:
- Carlo Crespi Croci (1891-1982), an Italian Salesian priest who died in Ecuador;
- Maria Caterina Flanagan (1892-1942), an English Bridgettine;
- Leonilde di San Giovanni Battista (1890-1945), an Italian Missionary Sister of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary;
- María do Monte Pereira (1897-1963), a Portuguese sister of the Hospitaller Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus;
- Teresa Enríquez de Alvarado (1456—1529), a Spanish lay woman; and
- Maria Domenica Lazzeri (1815—1848), an Italian lay woman.
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