Causes

 

World reknowned causes

 

Pope John XXIII

Carlo I d’Asburgo, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary

Cardinal Terence Cooke

Cardinal Pietro La Fontaine

Cardinal Josef Mindszenty

Cardinal John Henry Newman

Cardinal Aloisius Stepinac

Archbishop Theotonius Ganguly

Archbishop Tommaso Reggio

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Archbishop Antonio Cirillo Stojan

Archbishop Giovanni Tavelli da Tossignano

Bishop Ignazio Maloyan

Bishop Vincent J. McCauley, CSC.

Bishop Teodoro Romzsa

Bishop Francesco Giuseppe Rudigier

Bishop Anton Martin Slomsek

Bishop Michele Wittmann

Anna Katerina Emmerick

 

 

Founders and Foundresses

 

Luigi Braghi                              The Institute of the Sisters of Saint Marceline

Pietro Bonhomme                    The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Calvary

Maria Theresa Bonzel             The Institute of the Poor Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration of Olpe

Hildegard Burjan                    Social Caritas

Gwen Cecilia Coniker             The Apostolate for Family Consecration

Henriette Delille                      The Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family

Theresa Dudzik                         Franciscan Sisters of Chicago

Maria Kaupas                            Sisters of St. Casimir

Paulina von Mallinckrodt     Sisters of Christian Charity

Angeline McCrory                   Carmelite Sisters

Maria Merkert                          Sisters of Saint Elisabeth

Joseph Metzger                        Una-Sancta Fraternity

Angela Molari                          The Institute of the Daughters of Immaculate Conception

Basile Moreau                          The Congregation of Holy Cross

Paulo Giuseppe Nardini        The Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family

Domenica Solari                      The Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine                                                      “La Small House of Divine Providence”

Giovanna Solimani                The Congregation of the Romite Nuns of Saint John the Baptist

 

 

Amongst the Causes of martyrdom of which we were in charge of or of which we are in charge of, their high number not only from the Spanish Civil War and the National-socialism, but as well from other hostile persecutions towards Catholics; just remember the martyrs of Angers, the Armenian victims of the ottoman persecution, the Argentinian martyrs of Zenta, and the religious victims of China.  

Amongst several beatification causes completed and being taken to completion, we have sponsored the Cause of interesting mystical figures including Anna Caterina Emmerick and Therese Neumann, whom is very famous in the scientific world.

 

 

 

Causes brought to Canonization:

 

Theodore Guerin                                      October 15, 2006                   USA

Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello        May 19, 2002                         Italy                

Crescenzia Höss                                         November 25, 2001             Germany         

Agostino Roscelli                                       June 10, 2001                        Italy    

Luigi Scrosoppi                                          June 10, 2001                        Italy  

Agostina Pietrantoni                               April 19, 1999                        Italy

 

 

 

Causes brought to Beatification:

 

Franz Jägerstätter                            October 26, 2007                   Austria

Maria Merkert                                    September 30, 2007             Poland

Basile Moreau                                     September 15, 2007              France

Josef Nardini                                      October 22, 2006                   Germany

Luigi Biraghi                                      April 30, 2006                        Italy

Cardinal August von Galen           October 9, 2005                      Germany

Anna Katherina Emmerick           October 3, 2004                     Germany

Emperor Charles I                             October 3, 2004                     Austria

Pierre Bonhomme                             March 23, 2003                     France

Liduina Meneguzzi                            October 20, 2002                  Italy

Ignazio Maloyan                                October 7, 2001                     Armenia

Nicola Gross                                        October 7, 2001                     Germany

Eutimia Üffing                                  October 7, 2001                      Germany

Tommaso Reggio                               October 3, 2000                      Italy

Theodore Guerin                               October 25, 1998                    USA

Jakob Kern                                         June 21, 1998                          Austria

Agostino Roscelli                               May 7, 1995                             Italy

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 How to instruct a recent or historic Cause

 

**We want to remind the reader that the information given on this site is very brief and concise.

 

There is a substantial difference between non-historical and historical Causes: the first are the ones that sustain themselves essentially from eye witnesses, by witnesses who have well-known the person that wants to be suggested for the glory of the altars, technically called the Servant of God. Instead the historical or antique cause, as the name says itself, deals with a person who has passed away a long time ago and therefore the Cause not being able to rely on direct sources, it has to find its first primary base in documents.  

 

He/she (a person itself, a foundation, an association, a diocese, a congregation, religious order etc.) who promotes and economically maintains a Cause of Beatification or Canonization is called an Actor.

 

The Actor never proceeds personally with the cause but appoints an attorney who represents him first during the diocesan trial- that takes place mostly in the city where the Servant of God died- then in the Roman phase before The Congregation for the Causes of Saints.  It is to keep present that it is not strictly asked to have one same Postulator during the diocesan phase and the roman one, yet, on our extensive experience, clearly speaking it is always preferable to choose a legal representation from the group of roman Postulators to cover this delicate role seen that some of these have an advantage of much experience in which they can place themselves at the disposition of anyone, specially if they are willing to travel to different dioceses around the world.

 

As stated her, it is clear that the first step to take when initiating a Cause of filling out the mandate of the Postulator, whom after receiving the mandate to act, will proceed legally in carrying out the following duties:

-         Writing a biography of the Servant of God

-         Gathering the writings of the Servant of God and presenting them to receive the vow of two censor theologians that certify that in the writings there is nothing against the faith, the moral and the good customs.

-         Preparing an indicative list of the people who could witness

-         Gather this information and present it to the Bishop, the Ordinary Judge, together with a formal request to instruct the cause in the diocese.

 

If more than 30 years have gone by since the death of the Servant of God, there must be a reason indicated as to why the trial has not yet been started. 

 

As soon as the Bishop receives the request of the Postulator with the documents listed above, he must follow the following steps:

-         Confer with the Bishops of the Ecclesiastic Region on the opportunity of introducing the Cause.

-         Allow the followers to know about the petition of the Postulator inviting them to submit any writings of the Servant of God in their possession.

-         Have the Servant of God’s writings be controlled ecclesiastically by theologians.

-         Ask for permission from the Holy See to begin the Cause.

 

 The Miracle

 

The Servants of God who have lived a saintly life, practicing all of the virtues in a heroic grade, are canonically defined as a “confessors.”  After they have received their decree stating they have been declared venerable, they need an approved miracle to arrive to Beatification.  In order to arrive to Canonization, in other words to be proclaimed a Saint, another miracle needs to be approved after the Beatification ceremony. 

 

The other way to arrive to the altar of honour is to suffer martyrdom.  Martyrs are those who sacrificed their life accepting violent death with consciousness in order not to give up their catholic faith.  Martyrs do not need an approved miracle to be declared Blessed, whereas they need an approved miracle to be declared a Saint.