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

- The miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Maria Ignazio Isacchi (née Angela Caterina, known as Ancilla), founder of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Asola, born on 8 May 1857 in Stezano, Italy, and died on 19 August 1934 in Seriate, Italy;

- The martyrdom of the Servant of God Augusto Rafael Ramírez Monasterio, professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, born on 5 November 1937 in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and killed there in hatred of the faith on 7 November 1983;

- The heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Tecla Antonia Relucenti, co-founder of the Congregation of the Sisters Pious Workers of the Immaculate Conception, born on 23 September 1704 in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, and died there on 11 July 1769;

- The heroic virtues of the Servant of God Crocifissa Militerni (née Teresa), professed religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint John the Baptist, born on 24 December 1874 in Cetraro, Italy, and died there on 25 March 1925;

- The heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Imaculada of the Holy Trinity (née Maria Giselda Villela), founder of the Carmelites of the Holy Family of Pouso Alegre, born on 12 January 1909 in Maria da Fé, Brazil, and died there on 20 January 1988 in Pouso Alegre, Brazil;

- The heroic virtues of the Servant of God Nerino Cobianchi, lay faithful and father, born on 25 June 1945 in Velezzo Lomellina, Italy, and died on 3 January 1998 in Cilavegna, Italy.