Monday, July 03, 2006

Canonization to be held on October 15th

During an Ordinary Public Consistory held Saturday morning in the Vatican, Benedict XVI decreed that on October 15 he will canonize the following four Blesseds:

Rafael Guizar Valencia (1878-1938), bishop; Filippo Smaldone (1848-1923), priest, founder of the Institute of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Heart; Rosa Venerini (1656-1728), virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the "Maestre Pie Venerini;" Teodora Guerin, nee Anne-Therese (1798-1856), virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary "ad Nemus" (Saint Mary of the Woods).

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