Mags GarganPope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of four men and women
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of four men and women, including Marie-Elisabeth Turgeon, the Canadian founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.
The Pope also accelerated the sainthood process of Blessed Joseph Vaz, an Indian missionary credited with reviving almost single-handedly the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka during severe persecution by Dutch colonial authorities in the 17th century.
During a meeting September 17 with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, the Pope signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Sister Maria Cristina Brando.
Spirituality
The 19th-century Italian religious left her wealthy family to devote her life to eucharistic spirituality and to found the Congregation of the Sisters, Expiatory Victims of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Pope Francis also recognised a miracle attributed to the intercession of Turgeon, who was born in Beaumont, Quebec, in 1840, and died in Rimouski, Quebec, in 1881.
In another decree, the Pope recognised a miracle attributed to the intercession of Italian Archbishop Pio Alberto del Corona, a Dominican and founder of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit. He was born in 1837 and died in Florence in 1912.