BENEDICT XVI: SOON 162 NEW SAINTS AND BLESSED, INCLUDING ANTONIO ROSMINI

” “As he received in private audience card. José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints, the Pope authorised today such Papal Congregation to issue the decrees for 161 new saints and blessed, including the "servant of God" Antonio Rosmini, founder of the Institute of Charity and the Sisters of the Providence, born on March 24th 1797 in Rovereto and dead on July 1st 1855 in Stresa. Five are the recognised miracles attributed to Paolo Giuseppe Nardini, founder of the Franciscan Nuns of the Holy Family; Maria del Monte Carmelo del Bambino Gesù Gonzalez Ramos Garcia Prieto, founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan tertiaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; Maddalena della Passione Starace, founder of the Sisters of Compassion and Servants of Mary; Eufrasia del Sacro Cuore di Gesù Eluvathingal of the Congregation of the Nuns of the Mother Carmelite; Maria Rosa Pellesi of the Congregation of the Missionary Franciscan Nuns of Christ. Long is the list of martyrs: 149, all from Spain, except Francesco Spoto of the Congregation of the Missionary Servants of the Poor, who was born in Italy but died in Congo in 1964. The martyrs include a Spanish laywoman, Prudenza Canyelles I Ginesta, who was killed in 1936. ” “