On line on December 19th, 20th and 21st, an experiment from SIR Daily News in English. The service will officially start on January 9th 2006
Three from Germany, three from Spain, one from Poland, one from Holland: these are alongside 10 "nominations" from Italy and a future saint from India the native countries of the 19 saints and blessed, about whom Pope Benedict XVI authorised the Congregation of the cases of the saints to issue decrees, regarding the miracles, martyrdom or heroic virtues required for the beatification and canonisation procedure, after receiving yesterday at an audience cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the congregation. In particular, as far as Germany is concerned, a miracle has been recognised, related to the intercession of God’s servant Mary Theresa of Saint Joseph (whose real name was: Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch), the founder of the congregation of the Carmelite Nuns of the Divine Heart of Jesus; the heroic virtues of God’s servant Paolo Giuseppe Nardini, the founder of the congregation of the Franciscan Nuns of the Holy Family; the heroic virtues of Eustachio Kugler, from the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God. From Spain come Vittorio Chumillas Fernandez, from the Order of the Friars Minors, born in Olmeda del Rey on July 28th 1902 and dead at Boca de Balondillo on August 16th 1936, and 24 of his companions from the same Franciscan Order, whose martyrdom has been recognised, as well as Antero Mateo Garcia, a family man from the Third Order of Saint Dominic and 11 companions. The Spanish list is completed by Giuseppa Segovia Moron, the first general manager of the Theresian Institute. For Poland, the heroic virtues of the blessed Simone Da Lipnica were acknowledged, while a miracle was recognised for Holland, due to the intercession of Eustachio Van Lieshout from the Congregation of the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
