The Catholic Church will have eleven new blessed individuals following the approval of Pope Leo XIV. All of them were martyrs under Nazism and Communism.
Nine of them were Polish Salesians who were dedicated to education. They were murdered between 1941 and 1942 in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps. The reason for their deaths? Their Catholic faith.
The other two, who were diocesan priests in what is now Czech Republic, were killed out of hatred for the faith. At that time, the country, under the Communist regime, carried out widespread repression of the Catholic Church.
In the decree, signed by the Pope and promulgated by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Church also recognizes four Servants of God as venerable, including two Spaniards.
They are María Evangelista Quintero, a Cistercian nun, writer, and mystic, and the Dominican priest, José Merino. With this next step, they are closer now to beatification.
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