During the audience granted to His Most Reverend 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 Elias Hoyek, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Fouonder of the Congregation of Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family, born on 4 December 1843 in Helta, Lebanon, and died on 24 December 1931 in Bkerké, Lebanon;

- the martyrdom of the Servants of God Francisco González de Córdova and 79 companions, priests, religious, seminarians and lay faithful, killed in hatred of the faith between 1936 and 1937 in the territory of the diocese of Santander, Spain, in the context of the same persecution;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Costantino Vendrame, professed priest of the Salesian Society of Saint John Bosco, born on 27 August 1893 in San Martino di Colle Umberto, Italy, and died on 30 January 1957 in Dibrugarh, India;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Nazareno da Pula (né: Giovanni Zucca), professed religious of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, born on 21 January 1911 in Pula, Italy, and died on 29 February 1992 in Cagliari, Italy;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God María Ana Alberdi Echezarreta (née: María de la Conceptión Cruz), abbess of the Monastery of the Conceptionist Franciscan Sisters, born on 3 May 1912 in Azcoitia, Spain, and died on 27 November 1998 in Madrid, Spain;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Jean-Thierry of the Child Jesus and of the Passion (né: Jean-Thierry Ebogo), professed religious of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, born on 4 February 1982 in Mfou-Awaé, Cameroon, and died on 5 January 2006 in Legnano, Italy.