I. REQUEST FOR THE CAUSE OF CANONIZATION
Cardinal Angelo Amato, SDB:
These seven Blesseds, living amid the circumstances of their
times, bore witness to the extraordinary fruitfulness and perennial newness of
the Gospel.
The People of God not only greatly admires their martyrdom or
their resplendent virtues, but also invokes them in Christ before God as
powerful intercessors for divine assistance and heavenly graces and favours.
Your Holiness recently ordered the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to
promulgate the decrees concerning their miracles which are presently required
by law, in order to proceed to their canonization.
Most Holy Father, I earnestly ask you, then, for the glory of
God and the good of the whole Church, by your apostolic authority, to bestow
upon the aforementioned Blesseds the honour of sainthood and, if it pleases
you, to determine the dates when they will be solemnly enrolled among the
Saints.
II. EVALUATION OF THE VOTES
ON THE PROPOSED CANONIZATION
Pope Benedict XVI:
All that is required for Blessed
·
Jacques Berthieu,
·
Pedro Calungsod,
·
Giovanni Battista Piamarta,
·
María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras,
·
Marianne Cope,
·
Kateri Tekakwitha and
·
Anna Schäffer
to be enrolled among the Saints has been satisfactorily
completed by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, as we have learned from
its Prefect, Cardinal Angelo Amato.
Venerable Brothers, before celebrating this Consistory, you,
too, individually submitted your judgment in writing and declared that these
same Blesseds should be proposed to the whole Church as examples of Christian
life and holiness suited to the circumstances of our times.
III. Decision of the Roman Pontiff regarding
the day of canonization
Pope Benedict XVI:
Venerable Brothers, I greatly rejoice that you have considered
Blessed:
·
Jacques Berthieu,
·
Pedro Calungsod,
·
Giovanni Battista Piamarta,
·
María del Monte Carmelo Sallés
·
y Barangueras,
·
Marianne Cope,
·
Kateri Tekakwitha and
·
Anna Schäffer
worthy of being proposed for veneration by the whole Church.
Therefore, by the authority of Almighty God, the Apostles Peter
and Paul, and our Own, we decree that Blessed:
·
Jacques Berthieu,
·
Pedro Calungsod,
·
Giovanni Battista Piamarta,
·
María del Monte Carmelo Sallés
·
y Barangueras,
·
Marianne Cope,
·
Kateri Tekakwitha and
·
Anna Schäffer
are to be enrolled among the Saints on the 21st day of the month
of October in the year two thousand and twelve.
