Hagiography Circle (original) (raw)
NOTICE: COMMUNIQU� OF THE DICASTERY FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS ON BAUDOUIN, KING OF THE BELGIANS
21 December 2024
VATICAN CITY - During his recent Apostolic Journey to Belgium, the Holy Father Francis announced the opening of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Baudouin, King of the Belgians. Subsequently, the Secretariat of State communicated that the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints will promote and open ex officio the said Cause.
NOTICE: EQUIPOLLENT CANONIZATION AND FIVE DECREES PROMULGATED
18 December 2024
VATICAN CITY - Today, 18 December 2024, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, and approved the favorable votes cast by the Cardinal and Bishop members of the Dicastery and extended to the Universal Church the liturgical worship in honor of Blesseds Th�r�se of Saint Augustine and 15 Companions, as well as the promulgation of five decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: FIVE DECREES PROMULGATED AND CONFIRMATION OF CULTUS
25 November 2024
VATICAN CITY - Today, 25 November 2024, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate five decrees regarding miracles, martyrdoms and heroic virtues and the decree on the confirmation of cultus since time immemorial of the Venerable Servant of God Juana V�zquez Guti�rrez.
NOTICE: COMMEMORATION OF ALL MODELS OF HOLINESS IN LOCAL CHURCHES
17 November 2024
VATICAN CITY - On Saturday, 16 November 2024, Pope Francis issued a Letter calling on all dioceses to take concrete initiatives to honor the memory of all its models of holiness � canonized or not � and to commemorate them annually on the feast of the dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran on 9 November beginning in 2025.
NOTICE: ASSYRIAN SAINT ADDED TO ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
9 November 2024
VATICAN CITY - This morning, during an audience with Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, and members of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East, Pope Francis announced the inclusion of Saint Isḥaq of Nineveh [ܡܪܝ ܐܝܣܚܩ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ] (c. 613 � c. 700 ) in the Roman Martyrology.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
1 July 2024
VATICAN CITY - This morning, at 9:30 a.m., in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis presided over the celebration of midmorning prayers and the ordinary public consistory for the canonization of fifteen Blesseds.
NOTICE: SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
20 June 2024
VATICAN CITY - Today, 20 June 2024, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate six decrees regarding martyrdoms and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED AND VOTE FOR CANONIZATION APPROVED
23 May 2024
VATICAN CITY - Today, 23 May 2024, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdoms, and heroic virtues. He also approved the votes made by the Ordinary Session of the Cardinals and Bishops of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in favor of the canonization of eleven Blesseds.
NOTICE: CONCESSION OF MASS AND OFFICE FOR BLESSED GUY FROM MONTPELLIER
18 May 2024
VATICAN CITY - Today, 18 May 2024, Pope Francis issued motu proprio the apostolic letter_Fide Incensus_which inscribes in the catalogue of Blesseds Brother Guy from Montpellier (� 1208) and grants an obligatory liturgical memorial in the Divine Office and Eucharistic celebration for the religious orders and institutes rooted in his work at the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia (Rome).
NOTICE: THREE DECREES PROMULGATED
13 April 2024
VATICAN CITY - Today, 13 April 2024, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate three decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom, and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: TWELVE DECREES PROMULGATED
14 March 2024
VATICAN CITY - Today, 14 March 2024, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate six decrees regarding miracles, martyrdoms, and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
24 January 2024
VATICAN CITY - Today, 24 January 2024, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate six decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom, and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
14 December 2023
VATICAN CITY - Today, 14 December 2023, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdoms, and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: FOUR DECREES PROMULGATED
8 November 2023
VATICAN CITY - Today, 8 November 2023, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate four decrees regarding a miracle and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: DECREE PROMULGATED
24 October 2023
VATICAN CITY - Today, 24 October 2023, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate a decree regarding a miracle.
NOTICE: SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
22 June 2023
VATICAN CITY - Today, 22 June 2023, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate nine decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: NINE DECREES PROMULGATED
20 May 2023
VATICAN CITY - Today, 20 May 2023, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate nine decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
23 March 2023
VATICAN CITY - Today, 23 March 2023, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate six decrees regarding heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
23 February 2023
VATICAN CITY - Today, 23 February 2023, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate six decrees regarding a miracle and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
19 January 2023
VATICAN CITY - Today, 19 January 2023, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate six decrees regarding heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SIXTEEN DECREES PROMULGATED
17 December 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, 17 December 2022, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate twelve decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom, offer of life, and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
27 August 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, at 16:00, in the Basilica of Saint Peter, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of two Blesseds.
NOTICE: SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
5 August 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, 9 April 2022, Pope Francis received in a private audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery to promulgate nine decrees regarding a martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED AND VOTE FOR CANONIZATION APPROVED
21 May 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, 21 May 2022, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles and heroic virtues. He also approved the votes made by the Ordinary Session of the Cardinals and Bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in favor of the canonization of one Blessed.
NOTICE: NINE DECREES PROMULGATED
9 April 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, 9 April 2022, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate nine decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
4 March 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, at 10:00 a.m., in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of three Blesseds.
NOTICE: FIVE DECREES PROMULGATED
18 February 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, 18 February 2022, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate five decrees regarding a miracle and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: DECREE CONFERRING TITLE �DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH� TO SAINT IRENAEUS
21 January 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, 21 January 2022, in response to the proposal presented yesterday by His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, on conferring the title of Doctor of the Universal Church on Saint Irenaeus, the Holy Father Pope Francis issued a decree to that effect.
NOTICE: PROPOSAL FOR DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH AND THREE DECREES PROMULGATED
20 January 2022
VATICAN CITY - Today, 20 January 2022, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father received the proposal for the the conferral of the title of Doctor of the Universal on Saint Irenaeus and also authorized the Congregation to promulgate three decrees regarding heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
13 December 2021
VATICAN CITY - Today, 13 December 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate six decrees regarding miracles and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: NINE DECREES PROMULGATED
25 November 2021
VATICAN CITY - Today, 25 November 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate nine decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: PRESS STATEMENT FROM THE CONGREGATION FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS
9 November 2021
Pope Francis has decided on the date for the canonization of seven Blesseds which had been decreed in the Ordinary Public Consistory of 3 May 2021.
NOTICE: Regulations for POSTULATORS
14 October 2021
VATICAN CITY - The Regulations for Postulators, signed by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, Secretary of the same dicastery, entered into force on 11 October 2021. Pope Francis authorized their promulgation on 30 August 2021.
In an interview with Vatican News, Cardinal Semeraro explained the newness of these Regulations: �In the past, some aids in the form of a Vademecum or Codex pro postulatoribus have been elaborated and disseminated to facilitate the postulatorʼs work. These publications were prepared by postulators themselves, or by some officials of the Congregation. Until now, however, a normative document concerning the figure and functions of the postulator had never been elaborated and promulgated.� He further explained that the Congregation for Causes of Saints saw �the usefulness of gathering in a single text the practice and the specific pontifical legislation on the causes of saints which directly concern the office of postulators.�
For an English translation of the Regulations, clickHERE.
NOTICE: SEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED
13 October 2021
VATICAN CITY - Today, 13 October 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate three decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: THREE DECREES PROMULGATED
30 August 2021
VATICAN CITY - Today, 30 August 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate three decrees regarding heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED
19 June 2021
VATICAN CITY - Today, 19 June 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate seven decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED
22 May 2021
VATICAN CITY - Today, 22 May 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate seven decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
03 May 2021
VATICAN CITY - Today, at 10:00 a.m., in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of seven Blesseds.
NOTICE: EQUIPOLLENT CANONIZATION AND SIX DECREES PROMULGATED
24 April 2021
VATICAN CITY - Today, 24 April 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and approved the favorable votes cast by the Cardinal and Bishop members of the Congregation and extended to the Universal Church the liturgical worship in honor of Blessed MARGHERITA FROM CITT� DI CASTELLO, as well as the promulgation of six decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED
18 March 2021
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 17 March 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate seven decrees regarding heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
20 February 2021
VATICAN CITY - On 20 February 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a miracle and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
21 January 2021
VATICAN CITY - On 21 January 2021, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
22 December 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 21 December 2020, Pope Francis received His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
24 November 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 23 November 2020, Pope Francis received Bishop Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
28 October 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 27 October 2020, Pope Francis received Bishop Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: APPOINTMENT OF PREFECT OF CONGREGATION FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS
15 October 2020
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Marcello Semeraro, until now Bishop of Albano, as the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. He succeeds Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who resigned his post on 24 September.
NOTICE: FOUR DECREES PROMULGATED
30 September 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 29 September 2020, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate four decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: FIVE DECREES PROMULGATED
11 July 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 10 July 2020, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate five decrees regarding a miracle and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: FIVE DECREES PROMULGATED
19 June 2020
VATICAN CITY - Today, 19 June 2020, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate five decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
27 May 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 26 May 2020, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: BEATIFICATIONS POSTPONED
06 May 2020
VATICAN CITY - Due to the necessary measures taken in response to the coronavirus emergency, and at the request of the bishops concerned, the beatifications for the following Venerable Servants of God have been postponed:
- Lucia Ripamonti (scheduled for 9 May 2020)
- Maria Luigia Velotti (scheduled for 16 May 2020)
- Cayetano Gim�nez Mart�n and 15 Companions (scheduled for 23 May 2020)
- Stefan Wyszyński (scheduled for 7 June 2020)
- Sandra Sabattini (scheduled for 14 June 2020)
New dates for the beatifications have not yet been set.
NOTICE: FIVE DECREES PROMULGATED
06 May 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 05 May 2020, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate five decrees regarding heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
22 February 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 21 February 2020, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
24 January 2020
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 23 January 2020, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: TEN DECREES PROMULGATED
12 December 2019
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 11 December 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate ten decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ELEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED
29 November 2019
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 28 November 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eleven decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
03 October 2019
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 02 October 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EQUIPOLLENT CANONIZATION AND EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
05 July 2019
VATICAN CITY - Today, 05 July 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and approved the favorable votes cast by the Cardinal and Bishop members of the Congregation and extended to the Universal Church the liturgical worship in honor of Blessed BARTOLOMEU FERNANDES [BARTOLOMEU DOS M�RTIRES], as well as the promulgation of eight decrees concerning a miracle and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
01 July 2019
VATICAN CITY - At 10:00 a.m. today, in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of five Blesseds.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
12 June 2019
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 11 June 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
14 May 2019
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 13 May 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
08 April 2019
VATICAN CITY - On 06 April 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a miracle and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
19 March 2019
VATICAN CITY - Today, 19 March 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdoms and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
13 February 2019
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 12 February 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: FOUR DECREES PROMULGATED
15 January 2019
VATICAN CITY - Today, 15 January 2019, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate four decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: TWELVE DECREES PROMULGATED
22 December 2018
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday afternoon, 21 December 2018, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate twelve decrees regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SIXTEEN DECREES PROMULGATED
08 November 2018
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 07 November 2018, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate sixteen decrees regarding the confirmation of cultus, miracles, martyrdoms and heroic virtues, .
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
19 July 2018
VATICAN CITY - At 10:00 a.m. today, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of one Blessed.
NOTICE: FOUR DECREES PROMULGATED
05 July 2018
VATICAN CITY - Today, 05 July 2018, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate four decrees regarding heroic virtues.
NOTICE: FOUR DECREES PROMULGATED
09 June 2018
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 08 June 2018, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate four decrees regarding miracles and martyrdoms.
NOTICE: Appointment of prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
26 May 2018
VATICAN CITY - The Holy Father has appointed as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints His Excellency Msgr. Giovanni Angelo Becciu. He will take office at the end of August, in the meantime maintaining his role as Substitute for General Affairs of the Secretary of State until 29 June, and continuing as special delegate to the Sovereign Order of Malta.
NOTICE: TWELVE DECREES PROMULGATED
21 May 2018
VATICAN CITY - On 19 May 2018, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate twelve decrees regarding the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
19 May 2018
VATICAN CITY - At 10:00 a.m. today, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of six Blesseds.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
14 April 2018
VATICAN CITY - This morning, 14 April 2018, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: THIRTEEN DECREES PROMULGATED
07 March 2018
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 06 March 2018, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, a martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
27 January 2018
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 26 January 2018, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdoms and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: TWELVE DECREES PROMULGATED
19 December 2017
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 18 December 2017, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate twelve decrees regarding miracles, a martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: PROMULGATION OF INSTRUCTION RELICS IN THE CHURCH
16 December 2017
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has published updated guidelines for preventing abuse of the relics of saints and the blessed.
The Instruction Relics in the Church: Authenticity and Preservation highlights the prohibition of the sale of relics, reinforces recognition protocol, states the process for obtaining certificates of authenticity and protects the consent of the heirs of the Saint or Blessed.
Through these instructions, the Vatican reminds that relics cannot be �displayed for the veneration of the faithful without a proper certificate of the ecclesiastical authority who guarantees their authenticity.� It also insists that relics must only be exhibited where their security is guaranteed and not in profane or unauthorized places. Another important aspect is that relics must be �preserved and honored with a religious spirit, avoiding every type of superstition� and, above all, preventing their commercialization.
The Instruction outlines the correct procedure when transporting relics on pilgrimages and reinforces recognition protocol involving the remains of people who could be beatified or canonized. For example, it prohibits the dismemberment of significant body parts without permission from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and stipulates the presence of a certified doctor and two witnesses during a relic᾽s extraction.
The Instruction ultimately aims to protect both relics from theft, falsification and fraudulent sale and also the faithful who devoutly venerate them.
To read the English text of the Apostolic Letter, clickHERE.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
09 November 2017
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 08 November 2017, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding martyrdoms and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
10 October 2017
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 09 October 2017, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: PROMULGATION OF MAIOREM HAC DILECTIONEM
11 July 2017
VATICAN CITY - The voluntary and free offering of one�s life for others [_oblatio vitae_], resulting in untimely death, has become �a new cause for the beatification and canonization procedure, distinct from the causes based on martyrdom and on the heroism of virtues�
This was established today, 11 June, when Pope Francis promulgated the Apostolic Letter Maiorem hac dilectionem.
The decision particularly facilitates the study of the beatification causes of individuals who had lost their lives for doing an extreme act of Christian love (popularly called �martyrs of charity�), even if it cannot be easily proven that they heroically practiced virtues throughout their lives.
The Apostolic Letter affirm that �the heroic offering of life, inspired and sustained by charity, expresses a true, complete and exemplary imitation of Christ, and thus is deserving of that admiration that the community of faithful customarily reserves to those who have voluntarily accepted martyrdom of blood or have exercised Christian virtues to a heroic degree.�
To read the English text of the Apostolic Letter, clickHERE.
To read an elaboration of the document by Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, click HERE.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
07 July 2017
VATICAN CITY - This morning, 07 July 2017, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdoms and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED
17 June 2017
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 16 June, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate seven decrees regarding a martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: TWELVE DECREES PROMULGATED
04 May 2017
VATICAN CITY - Today, 04 May, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate twelve decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
20 April 2017
VATICAN CITY - At 10:00 a.m. today, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of thirty-seven Blesseds.
NOTICE: SEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED AND APPROVAL OF VOTES FOR CANONIZATIONS
23 March 2017
VATICAN CITY - This morning, 23 March 2017, Pope Francis received in a private audience Angelo Cardinal Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints. During the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the seven decrees regarding miracles, martyrdoms and the practice of heroic virtues and approved the votes made by the Ordinary Session of the Cardinals and Bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in favor of the canonization of two groups of Blesseds.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
27 February 2017
VATICAN CITY - Today, 27 February, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
21 January 2017
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 20 January, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a miracle and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
22 December 2016
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 21 December, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdoms and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: TWELVE DECREES PROMULGATED
2 December 2016
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 1 December, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate twelve decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdoms and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: FOUR DECREES PROMULGATED
11 October 2016
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 10 October, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate four decrees regarding the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: Regulations for the Medical Board of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
23 September 2016
VATICAN CITY - The Regulations for the Medical Board of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints was published today, signed by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, Secretary of the same dicastery.
�The purpose of the Regulations,� explains Archbishop Bartolucci, �can be none other than the good of the Causes, which can never neglect the historical and scientific truth of the alleged miracles. Just as it is necessary for the legal checks to be complete, convergent and reliable, it is also necessary that their study be performed with serenity, objectivity and sure competence by highly specialized Medical Experts and then, at a different level, by the Meeting of Theological Consultors and by the Session of Cardinals and Bishops, eventually reaching the decisive approval of the Holy Father, who has the exclusive competence of acknowledging an extraordinary event as a true miracle. These Regulations obviously concern only the good functioning of the Medical Board, whose task appears increasingly delicate, demanding and, thanks be to God, appreciated both inside and outside the Church.�
For an English translation of the Regulations, clickHERE.
NOTICE: NINE DECREES PROMULGATED
8 July 2016
VATICAN CITY - This morning, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate nine decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
20 June 2016
VATICAN CITY - At 10:00 a.m. today, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of five Blesseds.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
14 June 2016
VATICAN CITY - This morning, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: THREE DECREES PROMULGATED
10 May 2016
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 9 May 2016, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate three decrees regarding miracles and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: TWELVE DECREES PROMULGATED
27 April 2016
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 26 April 2016, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate twelve decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
15 March 2016
VATICAN CITY - At 10:00 a.m. today, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of five Blesseds.
NOTICE: Norms regarding the Administration of Assets in Causes of Beatification and Canonization
10 March 2016
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has approved a review of the norms on "the administration of the assets of the Causes of Beatification and Canonization,� abrogating those promulgated by John Paul II, establishing among other things that the Apostolic See �assumes the costs� of a Cause during the Roman Phase with a contribution from the petitioners and �ensures that the costs and expenses are kept within limits so as not to impede progress �. The check and balance system has been reinforced with a distinction made between �Administrator� and �Postulator�, accounting procedures have been enhanced and the role of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints as � as the highest supervisory authority � was given a boost. .
Pope Francis has approved the new norms which abrogated the ones currently in force, promulgated by John Paul II on 20 August 1982, during an audience with the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin last Friday, 04 March. The norms, which are attached to a Rescript signed by the Prefect and Secretary of the Congregation for the Cause of Saints, Cardinal Angelo Amato and Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, were published by Vatican newspaper L�Osservatore Romano and will enter into force ad experimentum for a period of three years, starting from the date of approval .�
For an English translation of the Regulations, clickHERE.
NOTICE: TWELVE DECREES PROMULGATED
04 March 2016
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday afternoon, 03 March 2016, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate twelve decrees regarding miracles and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: TEN DECREES PROMULGATED
22 January 2016
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday afternoon, 21 January 2016, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate ten decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: FOUR DECREES PROMULGATED
18 December 2015
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday morning, 17 December 2015, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate four decrees regarding a miracle and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SEVENTEEN DECREES PROMULGATED
16 December 2015
VATICAN CITY - On Monday, 14 December 2015, Pope Francis received Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate seventeen decrees regarding miracles and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
1 October 2015
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 30 September 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding martyrdom and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: DECREE OF MARTYRDOM PROMULGATED
8 August 2015
VATICAN CITY - In the morning of 8 August 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate a decree regarding martyrdom.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
17 July 2015
VATICAN CITY - In the afternoon of 16 July 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
27 June 2015
VATICAN CITY - At 10:00 a.m. today, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of midmorning prayers, Pope Francis held an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of three Blesseds.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
6 June 2015
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday, 5 June 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding miracles, martyrdoms, and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: CONFIRMATION OF VOTE AND ELEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED
7 May 2015
VATICAN CITY - On Tuesday, 5 May 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father confirmed the affirmative vote of the Ordinary Session of the Cardinals and Bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on the proximate canonization of Blessed Jun�pero Serra and authorized the Congregation to promulgate eleven decrees regarding miracles, martyrdom, and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: EIGHT DECREES PROMULGATED
18 March 2015
VATICAN CITY - Today, 18 March 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb,, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, during which he authorized the Congregation to promulgate eight decrees regarding a miracle and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: SAINT GREGORY OF NAREK - DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
23 February 2015
VATICAN CITY - On Saturday, 21 February 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb,, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. During the same audience, the Holy Father confirmed the affirmative vote of the plenary session of the cardinals and bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, on the title of Doctor of the Universal Church which will soon be given to Saint Gregory of Narek, monk and priest, born in Andzevatsik (then in Armenia, now T�rkiye) at about 950 and died in Narek (then in Armenia, now T�rkiye) at about 1005.
NOTICE: ORDINARY PUBLIC CONSISTORY
14 February 2015
VATICAN CITY - At 11 a.m. today in the Vatican Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated an Ordinary Public Consistory during which he created twenty new cardinals. At the end of the rite, Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb,, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, addressed the Holy Father to request that three Blesseds be inscribed in the Book of Saints.
NOTICE: THREE DECREES PROMULGATED
3 February 2015
VATICAN CITY - Today, 3 February 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb,, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, during which he authorized the Congregation to promulgate three decrees regarding martyrdoms, and the practice of heroic virtues.
NOTICE: ELEVEN DECREES PROMULGATED
22 January 2015
VATICAN CITY - Yesterday afternoon, 22 January 2015, Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb,,, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, during which he authorized the Congregation to promulgate eleven decrees regarding a miracle, martyrdoms, and the practice of heroic virtues.