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Cardinal calls for beatification, canonization of WWII heroine and nurse from Malaysia

July 4, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Malaysia’s Cardinal Sebastian Francis, bishop of Penang, has called for the beatification and canonization of Sybil Kathigasu, a heroine and lay martyr who protected information and housed and nursed local members of the anti-Japanese resistance… […]

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Guatemalan physician Ernesto Cofiño declared Venerable 

December 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Dr. Ernesto Cofiño was a pediatrician in Guatemala and father of five. / Credit: Opus Dei

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 15, 2023 / 17:45 pm (CNA).
With the authorization of Pope Francis, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints promulgated on Dec. 14 dec… […]

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Pope Francis approves beatification of priest martyred in World War II

May 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Canonization Mass for St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini on Oct. 9, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 05:40 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Saturday approved the beatification of a young Italian priest marty… […]

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A married couple with seven children to be beatified by the Catholic Church for martyrdom by Nazis

December 17, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

Wiktoria Ulma with six of her children. / The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II.

Vatican City, Dec 17, 2022 / 07:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of a married couple with seven children who were kille… […]

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Another 140 Spanish laymen, priests martyred for their faith considered for beatification

December 16, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

The faces of 140 Spanish priests and laity killed during the religious persecution in Spain in the 20th century. / Credit: Archbishopric of Madrid

CNA Newsroom, Dec 16, 2022 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
The diocesan phase of the beatification processes of… […]

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Faith-based feminism pioneer and tireless wartime Catholic priest beatified together in Italy

May 3, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Armida Barelli and Father Mario Ciceri are beatified at Milan Cathedral, Italy, on April 30, 2022. / Twitter @chiesadimilano.

Rome Newsroom, May 3, 2022 / 11:20 am (CNA).
A pioneer of faith-based feminism and a Catholic priest who ministered ti… […]

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Woman who endured neglect and abuse declared venerable by Pope Francis

April 12, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Maria Aristea Ceccarelli. / camilliani.org.

Vatican City, Apr 12, 2022 / 08:55 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has advanced the beatification cause of an Italian laywoman who was neglected by her parents, abused by her husband, and suffered prolonged he… […]

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Pope Francis approves canonization of immigrant nurse

April 12, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Bl. Artemide Zatti. / Twitter @infoANS_EN

Vatican City, Apr 12, 2022 / 06:05 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has approved the canonization of an immigrant nurse who died from liver cancer in 1951.Bl. Artemide Zatti was born in Italy, but emigrated to Ar… […]

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Pioneer of faith-based feminism and WWII priest to be beatified in April

November 3, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Armida Barelli and Fr. Mario Ciceri. / Archdiocese of Milan.

Milan, Italy, Nov 3, 2021 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
A pioneer of faith-based feminism and a Catholic priest who ministered tirelessly during the Second World War will be beatified in April.Car… […]

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This is the miracle that paved the way for John Paul I’s beatification

October 13, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope John Paul I in an undated file photo. / Vatican Media/CNA.

Rome Newsroom, Oct 13, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
After the doctors told Roxana Sosa that there was nothing else that they could do for her 11-year-old daughter, who was suffering from … […]

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