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Friday 07.07.2017

Promulgation of Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of

This morning the Holy Father Francis received in audience His Eminence Cardinal , S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

During the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decrees regarding:

- the miracle attributed to the intercession of Servant of Hanna Chrzanowska, layperson; born on 7 October 1902 in Warsaw, Poland, and died on 29 April 1973 in Krakow, Poland;

- the martyrdom of the Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, of the Institute for the Foreign Missions of Yarumal, bishop of Arauca; killed in hatred of the faith in 1989 near Fortul, Colombia;

-the martyrdom of the Servant of God Pedro Maria Ramírez Ramos, diocesan priest; killed in hatred of the faith on 10 April 1948 in Armero, Colombia;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Ismael Perdomo, archbishop of Bogotá; born on 22 February 1872 in El Gigante, Colombia, and died on 3 June 1950 in Bogotá, Colombia;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Alojzy Kosiba (né Piotr), professed layperson of the Order of Friars Minor; born on 29 June 1855 in Libusza, Poland, and died on 4 January 1939 in Wieliczka, Poland;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Paula of Jesús (née Paula Gil Cano), founder of the Congregation of Franciscan Sisters of the ; born on 2 February 1849 in Vera, Spain, and died on 18 January 1913 in Murcia, Spain;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Elisabetta Mazza, founder of the Institute of the Little Apostles of the Christian School; born on 21 January 1886 in Martinengo, , and died on 29 August 1950 in Bergamo, Italy; 2 - the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Crocefissa dell’Amore Divino (née Maria Gargani), founder of the Congregation of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart; born on 23 December 1892 in Morra Irpino (now Morra De Sanctis), Italy and died on 23 May 1973 in , Italy.