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

- the martyrdom of the Servants of God Jan Świerc and eight companions, professed priests of the Salesian Society of Saint John Bosco, killed between 1941 and 1942 in hatred of the faith, in the concentration camps in Auschwitz, Poland, and Dachau, Germany;

- the martyrdom of the Servants of God Jan Bula and Václav Drbola, diocesan priests, killed in hatred of the faith between 1951 and 1952, in Jihlava (then Czechoslovakia);

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Angelo Angioni, diocesan priest, founder of the Missionary Institute of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, born on 14 January 1915 in Bortigali, Italy, and died on 15 September 2008 in José Bonifácio, Brazil;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God José Merino Andrés, professed priest of the Order of Preachers, born on 23 April 1905 in Madrid, Spain, and died on 6 December 1968 in Palencia, Spain;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Gioacchino of the Queen of Peace (né Leone Ramognino), professed priest of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, born on 12 February 1890 in Sassello, Italy, and died on 25 August 1985 in Varazze, Italy;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God María Evangelista Quintero Malfaz (née María), professed nun of the Cistercian Order, born on 6 January 1591 in Cigales, Spain, and died on 27 November 1648 in Casarrubios del Monte, Spain.