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 attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Enrico Ernesto Shaw, lay faithful and family father, born on 26 February 1921 in Paris, France, and died on 27 August 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina;

- the martyrdom of the Servant of God Ignacio Aláex Vaquero, seminarian, and ten companions including a priest, seminarians and laypeople, killed in hatred of the faith between 1936 and 1937, in the territory of the province of Madrid, Spain;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Joseph Panjikaran, diocesan priest, founder of the Congrgation of the “Medical Sisters of Saint Joseph”, born on 10 September 1888 in Uzhuva, India, and died on 4 November 1949 in Kothamangalam, India;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Berardo Atonna (né Joseph), professed priest of the Order of the Friars Minor, born on 1 July 1843 in Episcopio di Sarno, Italy, and died on 4 March 1917 in Naples, Italy;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Domenica Caterina dello Spirito Santo (née Teresa Solari), founder of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Little House of Divine Providence, probably born on 8 December 1822 in Ne, Italy, and died on 7 May 1908 in Genoa, Italy.