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Vatican advances six candidates toward beatification
June 20, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: In a series of decrees issued on June 20, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints recognized the martyrdom of an Albanian priest, and the “heroic virtue” of five other candidates for beatification.
Father Luigi Palic, a Franciscan priest, was born in what is now Kosovo in 1877; he was killed in hatred for the faith in March 1913.
The candidates acknowledged for their heroic virtue are:
- Gjon Gazulli, another Albanian priest, who died for the faith in 1927;
- Isaia Columbro, (1908-2004) an Italian Franciscan;
- Maria Constanza Zauli (1886—1954), an Italian founder of the Adorers Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament;
- Ascension Sacramento Sanchez Sanchez (1911-1946), a Spanish member of the Cruzada Evangelica secular institute; and
- Vicenta Guilarte Alonso (1879-1960), a member of the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus.
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