Vatican dicastery moves candidates toward beatification

December 18, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: On December 18, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints issued a series of decreed, moving fifteen candidates forward on the bath to beatification.

The decrees:

• certified a miracle attributed to the intercession of Enrico Ernesto Shaw, an Argentine layman who died in 1962;
• attested to the martyrdom of Ignacio Aláex Vaquero, a seminarian, and ten companions who died in Madrid in 1936 and 1937;
and
• proclaimed the “heroic virtues” of Joseph Panjikaran, an Indian priest; Berardo Atonna, an Italian Franciscan; and Sister Caterina dello Spirito Santo, an Italian Dominican religious.

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