During the audience granted to His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same Dicastery to promulgate the Decrees regarding:

- the miracle of Blessed Vincenza Maria Poloni, founder of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, born in Verona on 26 January 1802 and died there on 11 November 1855;

- the martyrdom of the Servants of God Pietro da Corpa and four companions, of the Order of Friars Minor, killed in odium fidei in September 1597 in Florida, present-day Georgia, United States of America;

- the martyrdom of the Servant of God Licarion May (né Francisco Benjamin), brother of the Institute of the Marist Brothers of the Schools, born in Bagnes, Switzerland, on 21 July 1870, and killed in odium fidei on 27 July 1909 in Barcelona, Spain;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Mary Richard of the Precious Blood Beauchamp Hambrough (née Catherine), abbess general of the Order of the Most Holy Saviour of Saint Bridget, born on 10 September 1887 in London and died on 26 June 1966 in Rome;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Quintino Sicuro, diocesan priest, hermit, born on 29 May 1920 in Melissano, Italy, and died on 26 December 1968 on a path on Mount Fumaiolo di Verghereto, Italy;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Luigia Sinapi, lay faithful, born on 8 September 1916 in Itri, Italy, and died on 17 April 1978 in Rome.