Salesian Saints and Saints’ Causes, 2024
Salesian
Family Holiness Poster Published
(ANS – Rome – January 13, 2025) – At the beginning of the Holy Year 2025, it is significant to present the dossier of the Salesian General Postulation as a strong invitation to renew the universal call to holiness in the sign of hope that does not disappoint, as Pope Francis urges: “to bring hope where it has been lost: where life is wounded, in betrayed expectations, in broken dreams, in failures that shatter the heart; in the fatigue of those who can no longer do it, in the bitter loneliness of those who feel defeated, in the suffering that digs into the soul; in the long and empty days of prisoners, in the narrow and cold rooms of the poor, in places desecrated by war and violence.”
The saints and all candidates for holiness
are witnesses and pilgrims of hope who have accepted the Lord’s promise here
and now, in this suffering and groaning land, and who invite us to move “without
delay” toward God, rediscovering the greatest hope in him and then bring
it without delay, as pilgrims of light in the darkness of the world.
We need to express deep gratitude and praise
to God for the holiness already recognized in the Salesian Family of Don Bosco
and for others in process of recognition. The outcome of a cause of beatification
and canonization is an event of extraordinary importance and ecclesial value.
It is a matter of discerning the reputation for holiness of a baptized person
who has lived the evangelical beatitudes to a heroic degree or who has given
his life for Christ.
The Salesian Postulation involves 173
individuals among saints (10), blesseds (117), venerables (20), and servants of
God (26). The Postulation directly pursues 58 causes (plus 5 extra).
The dossier, the postulator general for the causes
of saints of the Salesian Family, Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, says, after reporting
the list and status of each cause, presents the events of 2024, including the
inauguration and blessing by the then-rector major, Cardinal Angel Fernandez
Artime, on June 4, 2024, of the new premises of the Salesian General
Postulation at the Ceferino Namuncurá community in Rome: library, archives,
custody of relics, and offices.
In addition, the following merit notice:
January 16, 2024: at the chapel of the Bocage
Foundation in Chambery, the canonical recognition and conservative
treatment of the mortal remains of Ven. Camille Costa de Beauregard (1841-1910),
a diocesan priest whose cause has been entrusted to the Salesian postulation.
March 14, 2024: the authorization by Pope
Francis to promulgate the decree concerning the miracle attributed to
the intercession of the Ven. Servant of God Camille Costa de
Beauregard; born in Chambery, France, on February 17, 1841, and died there
on March 25, 1910. The miracle, which took place in 1910 [sic], concerns the
child René Jacquemond, cured of “intense keratoconjunctivitis with grinding of
the cornea, strong pericheratic injection, redness and injection of the
conjunctiva, photophobia, and tearing of the right eye due to violent trauma
from a plant-bardanian agent.”
March 15, 2024: in Lahore, Pakistan, closure
of the diocesan inquiry into the cause of Beatification and Canonization
of Akash Bashir (1994-2015), layman, past pupil of Don Bosco,
killed in hatred of the faith. It is the first cause of beatification in
Pakistan.
April 28, 2024: in Cuautitlan, Mexico, closure
of the diocesan inquiry into the cause of the Servant of God Antoniette
Böhm (1907-2008), Daughter of Mary Help of Christians.
May 5, 2024: in Modica (Ragusa), Italy, closure
of the diocesan inquiry of the Servant of God Antonino Baglieri (1951-2007),
layman, Volunteer with Don Bosco.
May 31, 2024: delivery of the Study Concerning
the Life, Virtues, and Reputation for Holiness of the Servant of God Orestes
Marengo (1906-1998), Salesian missionary bishop in Northeast India.
November 25, 2024: authorization by Pope
Francis to promulgate the decree concerning the miracle attributed to the
intercession of Blessed Maria Troncatti, FMA, born in Corteno Golgi, Italy,
on February 16, 1883 and died in Sucua, Ecuador, on August 25, 1969. Miraculous
healing of a man from “Open cranio-encephalic trauma with comminuted fracture
of the skull case, loss of brain substance and exposure of brain tissue in the
right fronto-parieto-temporal area, widespread axonal damage (DAI), severe coma
evolved in a vegetative state of type 2,” which took place in 2015 in Ecuador.
November 28, 2024: delivery of the Study
Concerning the Martyrdom of the Servants of God Rudolph
Lunkenbein, SDB, priest, and Simão Bororo, layman,
killed in Brazil in hatred of the faith on July 15, 1976.
December 3, 2024: The theological consultants
of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints (Rome) answered in the affirmative
regarding the Study Concerning the Martyrdom of the Servants of God Jan
Swierc and 8 Companions, Salesian, killed in hatred of the faith in Nazi
death camps in 1941-1942.
December 18, 2024: authorization from
Pope Francis to promulgate the decree concerning the
martyrdom of the Servant of God Elijah Comini, Salesian priest; born
on May 7, 1910, in Calvenzano di Vergato (Bologna), Italy, and killed by German
soldiers in hatred of the faith at Pioppe di Salvaro (Bologna), Italy, on October
1, 1944.
Finally, the commitment to disseminate the
knowledge, imitation, and intercession of the members of the Salesian Family
candidates for holiness is recalled, valuing and caring for different aspects:
liturgical and celebratory, spiritual, pastoral, ecclesial, educational,
cultural, historical, social, missionary, etc.
At the bottom of the page you can
download the Postulation Dossier – in Italian, English,
Spanish, French and Portuguese – updated to December 31, 2023. It is also
possible to download the 2024 Salesian Family Holiness Poster designed
and created by graphic designer Andrea Cugini.
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