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Promulgation of Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, 07.07.2017

This morning the Holy Father Francis received in audience His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

During the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decrees regarding:

- the miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Hanna Chrzanowska, layperson; born on 7 October 1902 in Warsaw, Poland, and died on 29 April 1973 in Krakow, Poland;

- the martyrdom of the Servant of God Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, of the Institute for the Foreign Missions of Yarumal, bishop of Arauca; killed in hatred of the faith in 1989 near Fortul, Colombia;

-the martyrdom of the Servant of God Pedro Maria Ramírez Ramos, diocesan priest; killed in hatred of the faith on 10 April 1948 in Armero, Colombia;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Ismael Perdomo, archbishop of Bogotá; born on 22 February 1872 in El Gigante, Colombia, and died on 3 June 1950 in Bogotá, Colombia;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Alojzy Kosiba (né Piotr), professed layperson of the Order of Friars Minor; born on 29 June 1855 in Libusza, Poland, and died on 4 January 1939 in Wieliczka, Poland;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Paula of Jesús (née Paula Gil Cano), founder of the Congregation of Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception; born on 2 February 1849 in Vera, Spain, and died on 18 January 1913 in Murcia, Spain;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Elisabetta Mazza, founder of the Institute of the Little Apostles of the Christian School; born on 21 January 1886 in Martinengo, Italy, and died on 29 August 1950 in Bergamo, Italy;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Crocefissa dell’Amore Divino (née Maria Gargani), founder of the Congregation of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart; born on 23 December 1892 in Morra Irpino (now Morra De Sanctis), Italy and died on 23 May 1973 in Naples, Italy.