Salesian Saints Postulation Report 2023
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List as of 31 December 2022
Our Postulation covers 173 Saints, Blesseds, Venerables, Servants of God.
There are 58 cases directly followed by the Postulation (+ 5 extra).
SAINTS (ten)
St. John Bosco, priest (date of canonization: 1 April 1934) - (Italy)
Saint Joseph Cafasso, priest (22 June 1947) - (Italy)
saint Mary D. Mazzarello, virgin (24 June 1951) - (Italy)
Saint Dominic Savio, a teenager (12 June 1954) - (Italy)
St Leonard Murialdo, priest (3 May 1970) - (Italy)
St. Louis Versiglia, bishop, martyr (1 October 2000) - (Italy - China)
St. Callistus Caravario, priest, martyr (1 October 2000) - (Italy - China)
St. Louis Orione, priest (16 May 2004) - (Italy)
St. Louis Guanella, priest (23 October 2011) - (Italy)
Saint Artemis Zatti, religious (9 October 2022) - (Italy - Argentina)
BLESSED (one hundred and seventeen)
Blessed Michele Rua, priest (date of beatification: 29 October 1972) - (Italy)
Blessed Laura Vicuňa, teenager (3 September 1988) - (Chile - Argentina)
Blessed Filippo Rinaldi, priest (29 April 1990) - (Italy)
Blessed Magdalena Morano, virgin (5 November 1994) - (Italy)
Blessed Joseph Kowalski, priest, martyr (13 June 1999) - (Poland)
Blessed Francis Kęsy, layman, and 4 companions, martyrs (13 June 1999) - (Poland)
Czesław Józ´wiak, layman
Edward Kaz´mierski, layman
Edward Klinik, layman
Jarogniew Wojciechowski, layman
Blessed Pius IX, Pope (3 September 2000) - (Italy)
Blessed Joseph Calasanz, priest, and 31 companions, martyrs (11 March 2001) - (Spain)
Antonio Maria Martín Hernández, priest
Recaredo de los Ríos Fabregat, priest
Julian Rodríguez Sánchez, priest
Joseph Giménez López, priest
Agostino García Calvo, coadjutor
Giovanni Martorell Soria, priest
Giacomo Buch Canal, coadjutor
Peter Mesonero Rodríguez, cleric
Joseph Otín Aquilué, priest
Alvaro Sanjuán Canet, priest
Francis Bandrés Sánchez, priest
Sergio Cid Pazo, priest
Joseph Batalla Parramó, priest
Joseph Rabasa Bentanachs, coadjutor
Gil Rodicio Rodicio, coadjutor
Angelo Ramos Velázquez, coadjutor
Philip Hernández Martínez, cleric
Zaccaria Abadía Buesa, cleric
Giacomo Ortiz Alzueta, coadjutor
Xavier Bordas Piferrer, cleric
Felice Vivet Trabal, cleric
Michael Domingo Cendra, cleric
Joseph Caselles Moncho, priest
Joseph Castell Camps, priest
Joseph Bonet Nadal, priest
James Bonet Nadal, priest
Alessandro Planas Saurí, lay collaborator
Eliseo García García, coadjutor
Giulio Junyer Padern, priest
María Carmen Moreno Benítez, virgin
María Amparo Carbonell Muñoz, virgin
Blessed Luigi Variara, priest (14 April 2002) - (Italy - Colombia)
Blessed Maria Romero Meneses, virgin (14 April 2002) - (Nicaragua - Costa Rica)
Blessed Augustus Czartoryski, priest (25 April 2004) - (France - Poland)
Blessed Eusebia Palomino, virgin (25 April 2004) - (Spain)
Blessed Alexandrina M. Da Costa, laywoman (25 April 2004) - (Portugal)
Blessed Alberto Marvelli, layman (5 September 2004) - (Italy)
Blessed Bronislao Markiewicz, priest (19 June 2005) - (Poland)
Blessed Enrico Saiz Aparicio, priest, and 62 companions, martyrs (28 October 2007) - (Spain)
Felice González Tejedor, priest
John Codera Marqués, coadjutor
Virgilio Edreira Mosquera, cleric
Paolo Gracia Sánchez, coadjutor
Carmelo Giovanni Pérez Rodríguez, Subdeacon
Teodulo González Fernández, cleric
Tommaso Gil de la Cal, aspirant
Federico Cobo Sanz, aspirant
Igino de Mata Díez, aspirant
Right Juanes Santos, cleric
Victoriano Fernández Reinoso, cleric
Emilio Arce Díez, coadjutor
Raimondo Eirín Mayo, coadjutor
Matteo Garolera Masferrer, coadjutor
Anastasio Garzón González, coadjutor
Francis Joseph Martín López de Arroyave, coadjutor
Giovanni de Mata Díez, lay collaborator
Pio Conde Conde, priest
Sabino Hernández Laso, priest
Salvatore Fernández Pérez, priest
Nicola de la Torre Merino, coadjutor
Germano Martín Martín, priest
Joseph Villanova Tormo, priest
Stefano Cobo Sanz, cleric
Francis Edreira Mosquera, cleric
Emanuele Martín Pérez, cleric
Valentino Gil Arribas, coadjutor
Peter Artolozaga Mellique, cleric
Emanuele Borrajo Míguez, cleric
Dionisio Ullívarri Barajuán, coadjutor
Michele Lasaga Carazo, priest
Louis Martínez Alvarellos, cleric
John Larragueta Garay, cleric
Fiorenzo Rodríguez Güemes, cleric
Pasquale de Castro Herrera, cleric
Stefano Vázquez Alonso, coadjutor
Eliodoro Ramos García, coadjutor
Joseph Maria Celaya Badiola, coadjutor
Andrea Jiménez Galera, priest
Andrea Gómez Sáez, priest
Antonio Cid Rodríguez, coadjutor
Antonio Torrero Luque, priest
Antonio Enrico Canut Isús, priest
Michele Molina de la Torre, priest
Paolo Caballero López, priest
Onorio Hernández Martín, cleric
John Louis Hernández Medina, cleric
Antonio Mohedano Larriva, priest
Antonio Fernández Camacho, priest
Joseph Limón Limón, priest
Joseph Blanco Salgado, coadjutor
Francisco Míguez Fernández, priest
Emanuele Fernández Ferro, priest
Felice Paco Escartín, priest
Thomas Alonso Sanjuán, coadjutor
Emanuele Gómez Contioso, priest
Antonio Pancorbo López, priest
Stefano García García, coadjutor
Raphael Rodríguez Mesa, coadjutor
Antonio Rodríguez Blanco, diocesan priest
Bartolomeo Blanco Márquez, layman
Teresa Cejudo Redondo, laywoman
Blessed Zeffirino Namuncurá, layman (11 November 2007) - (Argentina - Italy)
Blessed Maria Troncatti, virgin (24 November 2012) - (Italy - Ecuador)
Blessed Stephen Sándor, religious, martyr (19 October 2013) - (Hungary)
Blessed Titus Zeman, priest, martyr (30 September 2017) - (Slovakia)
VENERABLE (eighteen)
Ven. Andrea Beltrami, priest, (date of Decree super virtutibus: 15 December 1966) - (Italy)
Ven. Teresa Valsè Pantellini, virgin (12 July 1982) - (Italy)
Ven. Dorotea Chopitea, lay (9 June 1983) - (Spain)
Ven. Vincenzo Cimatti, priest (21 December 1991) - (Italy - Japan)
Ven. Simone Srugi, religious (2 April 1993) - (Palestine)
Ven. Rodolfo Komorek, priest (6 April 1995) - (Poland - Brazil)
Ven. Luigi Olivares, Bishop (20 December 2004) - (Italy)
Ven. Margherita Occhiena, laywoman (23 October 2006) - (Italy)
Ven. Giuseppe Quadrio, priest (19 December 2009) - (Italy)
Ven. Laura Meozzi, virgin (27 June 2011) - (Italy - Poland)
Ven. Attilio Giordani, layman (9 October 2013) - (Italy - Brazil)
Ven. Joseph Augustus Arribat, priest (8 July 2014) - (France)
Ven. Stefano Ferrando, Bishop (3 March 2016) - (Italy - India)
Ven. Francesco Convertini, priest (20 January 2017) - (Italy - India)
Ven. Joseph Vandor, priest (20 January - 2017) - (Hungary - Cuba)
Ven. Ottavio Ortiz Arrieta Coya, Bishop (27 February 2017) - (Peru)
Ven. Augustus Hlond, Cardinal (19 May 2018) - (Poland)
Ven. Ignatius Stuchly, priest (21 December 2020) - (Czech Republic)
SERVANTS OF GOD (twenty-eight)
Causes are listed according to status
Positio examined by theologians
Elia Comini, priest (Italy) martyr
Special Congress Theological Consultors: 5 May 2022
Carlo Crespi Croci, priest (Italy - Ecuador)
Special Congress Theological Consultors: 11 October 2022
Antonio De Almeida Lustosa, Bishop (Brazil)
Special Congress Theological Consultors: 8 November 2022
Positio delivered
John Świerc, priest and 8 companions, martyrs (Poland)
Ignatius Dobiasz, priest
Francis Harazim, priest
Casimir Wojciechowski, priest
Ignatius Antonowicz, priest
Lodovico Mroczek, priest
Carlo Golda, priest
Vladimir Szembek, priest
Francis Miśka, priest
Positio delivered: 21 July 2022
The drafting of the Positio
Costantino Vendrame, priest (Italy - India)
Decree of validity of the Diocesan Inquiry: 1 February 2013
Oreste Marengo, Bishop (Italy - India)
Decree of validity of the Diocesan Inquiry: 6 December 2013
Carlo Della Torre, priest (Italy - Thailand)
Decree of validity of the Diocesan Inquiry: 1 April 2016
Andrea Majcen, priest (Slovenia - China - Vietnam)
Decree of validity of the Diocesan Inquiry: 23 October 2020
Rodolfo Lunkenbein, priest (Germany - Brazil) and Simão Bororo, lay person (Brazil), martyrs
Decree of validity of the Diocesan Inquiry: 16 December 2020
Silvio Galli, priest (Italy)
Decree of validity of the Diocesan Inquiry: 19 October 2022
Vera Grita, laywoman (Italy)
Decree of validity of the Diocesan Inquiry: 14 December 2022
Awaiting the Decree of Validity of the Diocesan Inquiry
Anna Maria Lozano, virgin (Colombia)
Closing of Diocesan Inquiry: 19 June 2014
Cognata Giuseppe, Bishop (Italy)
Closing of Diocesan Inquiry: 1 October 2022
Diocesan Inquiry in progress
Matilde Salem, laywoman (Syria)
Opening of Diocesan Inquiry: 20 October 1995
Carlo Braga, priest (Italy - China - Philippines)
Opening of Diocesan Inquiry: 30 January 2014
Antonino Baglieri, layman (Italy)
Opening of Diocesan Inquiry: 2 March 2014
Antoinette Böhm, virgin (Germany - Mexico)
Opening of Diocesan Inquiry: 7 May 2017
Rosetta Marchese, virgin (Italy)
Opening Diocesan Inquiry: 30 April 2021
Luigi Bolla, priest (Italy - Ecuador - Peru)
Opening of Diocesan Inquiry: 27 September 2021
Akash Bashir, layman, martyr (Pakistan)
Opening of Diocesan Inquiry: 15 March 2022
EXTRA CAUSES FOLLOWED BY POSTULATION (5)
Venerable COSTA DE BEAUREGARD CAMILLO, priest (France)
The Decree super virtutibus: 22 January 1991
Venerable BARELLO MORELLO CASIMIRO, Franciscan tertiary (Italy - Spain)
The super virtutibus decree: 1 July 2000
Venerable TYRANOWSKI JOHN, lay (Poland)
The super virtutibus decree: 20 January 2017
Venerable BERTAZZONI AUGUSTO, bishop (Italy)
The super virtutibus decree: 2 October 2019
Venerable CANELLI FELICE, priest (Italy)
The super virtutibus decree: 22 May 2021
Mention must also be made of the Saints, Blesseds, Venerables and Servants of God who at different times and in different ways have encountered the Salesian charism, such as Blessed Hedwig Carboni, the Servant of God Cardinal Giuseppe Guarino, founder of the Holy Family Apostles, the Servant of God Salvo d'Acquisto, a former pupil, and many others.