Servant of God Carlo Crespi
May Soon Be “Venerable”
(ANS – Vatican City – March 8, 2023) – On March 7 the cardinals and bishops who are members of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints rendered a positive opinion unanimously regarding the heroic exercise of virtues, the reputation of holiness, and signs of the Servant of God Fr. Carlo Crespi Croci (1891-1982), a Salesian missionary in Ecuador.
The session of the dicastery examined not only
Fr. Crespi’s heroic exercise of virtues, but also the whole process of the cause
and the ecclesial importance of the cause itself.
Now Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the dicastery’s
prefect, will submit for the approval of the Supreme Pontiff the conclusions of
the session with the request to confirm the opinion expressed by the cardinals
and bishops of the Dicastery in view of promulgating a decree of Venerability
of the Servant of God.
The common feeling that the presence and
witness of the Salesian missionary life of Fr. Carlo Crespi was a great gift,
especially in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, is increasingly confirmed, “first of
all, for the unfailing practice of the best human and Christian virtues and,
second, for the extraordinary cultural work that he conducted in different
fields of activity; for having guaranteed to children of the ‘popular’ working
class an educational path of free schooling, he also founded a technical
institute” (writer Luis Cordero Crespo).
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