Vatican City, Vatican - 1 April 2016 - The Congregation for the Causes of Saints promulgated the Decree on the legal validity of the Diocesan Investigation on the Servant of God Fr Carlo Della Torre SDB, (1900-1982), a missionary in Thailand and founder of the Daughters of the Queenship of Mary Immaculate. This Institute is now split into the Daughters of the Queenship of Mary Immaculate who are lay consecrated (secular institute)

, and the Sisters of the Queenship of Mary Immaculate, consecrated religious. The legal validity is the official statement that the diocesan inquiry was dealt with under the current rules for the Causes of Saints.