Wednesday, March 16, 2016

L'Osservatore Romano: Five new saints in the Jubilee year
· ​Ordinary Public Consistory for the vote on several causes of canonization ·

On Tuesday, 15 March, Pope Francis held an Ordinary Public Consistory for the canonization of blesseds José Sánchez del Río, layman and martyr; Stanisław of Jesus Mary (in the world: Jan Papczyński), Founder of the Congregation of the Marian Clerics of the Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary; José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, diocesan priest; Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad, Foundress of the Brigettine Order of the Most Holy Savior; Teresa of Calcutta (in the world: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Foundress of both the male and female branches of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity.


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