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CAUSES OF HOLY DOMINICANS

 

CAUSES FOR CANONISATION

Blessed Pier Giorgio (1901-1925) was an ardent athlete, a tireless servant of the poor, a university student of Turin where he died after a 6 day illness of polio. As a Tertiary, he choose the name of Brother Jerome, since he venerated Fra Savonarola as a saint.

Bl. Margaret of Castello, herself blind and crippled, patron of the "marginalized".

Blessed Fra Angelico, patron of Artists

Bl. John of Vercelli, founder of the Holy Name Society,

Bl. James Salomoni, whose new Shrine is in our St. Catherine's Church in New York, across the street from the world renowned cancer hospital.

 

CAUSES FOR BEATIFICATION

Ven. fr. Samuel Mazuchelli, founder of the Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation who are now in Trinidad & Tobago, is attributed to healing one who extraordinarily had been able to give up the use of dialysis.

Ven. Luis of Grenada;

Ven. Vincenzo Bernedo of Bolivia;

Fr. Savonarola

Meister Eckert

fr. Bartholomew de las Casas

fr. J. J. Lataste, a French Dominican who founded the Sisters of Bethany with the purpose of encouraging reformed prostitutes to give themselves to God totally in religious life. They have a house in he Dutch West Indies.

fr. M. J. Lagrange, renowned Scripture scholar who led the renewal of biblical studies in the Church and who founded L’Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem, one of the world’s greatest research centres on the sacred writings.

fr. Bonaventure Paredes and 37 confrères of Madrid, martyred in Spain during the persecution of the mid-thirties.

fr. J. T. Arintero, a Spanish spiritual theologian and writer during the first half of the twentieth century.;

fr. Joseph Girotti, executed in Dachau Concentration Camp during World War II.

fr. Titus Horten;

fr. Paschal Kelly (+1975), a longtime victim of almost complete multiple sclerosis, continues to progress towards the altars of the Church.

Mother Columba, founder of a Congregation of Polish Sisters with nursing homes in Poland and the USA and Canada.

Praxedes Fernandez, wife and mother.

Mother Luigia Tincani of Rome;

Georgio La Pira of Florence;

Elizabeth Leseur.

 

On Dec. 20, 2004, the Vatican Congregation for Sainthood Causes promulgated the decrees for three Dominicans in the presence of John Paul II. One decree recognized the miracle that opens the doors for the beatification of a Dominican Servant of God whose heroic virtues the Pope had previously recognized, namely:

·         Mother Ascención del Corazon de Jesus, born Fiorentina Nicoli Goñi, a Spanish religious of the Dominicans of the Third Order, co-founder and first superior general of the Dominicans of the Holy Rosary (1868-1940). 

In addition, decrees were promulgated recognizing the heroic virtues of two other Dominicans: 

·         Titus Horten, German priest of the Order of Preachers (1882-1936).
 

·         Mary Colomba Bialecka, born Rosa Filippina, Polish religious and founder of the Congregation for the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Dominic (1838-1887).

Sep 22
The 233 Blessed Martyrs of Valencia, Spain

All killed for the faith in 1936 by the Communists.  Of these, 20 are Dominican priests and brothers, Bl. Jacino Serrano and 19 Companions.

Blesseds Beatified by John Paul II, http://www.nccbuscc.org/pope/beatify.htm, under March 11, 2001.