The Venerables are those who have completed the lengthy canonical process of the Cause, at both the diocesan and Roman levels. All the material that has been gathered and studied is examined within the Congregation for the Causes of Saints by experts in history and theology, before being scrutinized by a group of cardinals and bishops. If the entire process is favourable, the Holy Father may authorize the publication of the decree by which the person becomes Venerable. With regard to these individuals, the Church recognizes a life of virtue that can serve as an example and a source of help for the faithful, but does not yet allow public veneration.
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Anita Cantieri was born in Lucca (Italy) on March 30, 1910. Her parents, Davino and Annunziata, were countrypeople of modest means; they had 12 children. Shortly after her birth on April 3rd, she was baptized; received...
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Anna of St Augustine was born in Valladolid on the 11th of December, 1555. In 1577 she was accepted at the Carmelite monastery of Malagon (Spain) where in 1578 she made her solemn profession. Favoured by...
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Augusto Intreccialagli was born in Montecompatri (Italy) on February 18th, 1852. He entered the novitiate of the Roman Province of the Discalced Carmelites in 1868 and was ordained a priest on May 2nd, 1875. His outstanding...
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Aureliano of the Most Blessed Sacrament was born on June 27, 1887 in San Miguel de Basauri (Vizcaya – Spain). At the age of fifteen he entered the novitiate of the Discalced Carmelites in Larrea and...
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Balbino of Carmel was born on March 7, 1865 in Fresno, a province of Avila (Spain) to Lorenzo Sánchez and Balbina Mayorga. Two days after his birth he was baptized with the names of Ildefonso-Thomas. He...
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Fr. Benignus of St Therese of the Child Jesus (Angelo Calvi), from the family and from the parish of the same name in Italy, had a strong and joyful education in the faith, founded on a...
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Chiara Maria of the Passion was born in Orsogna (Chieti - Italy) on 11 April 1610 to Filippo Colonna, Duke of Paliano, and Lucrezia Tomacelli. The name given to her in baptism was Giovanna Vittoria. On...
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Kunegunda Siwiec was born in Siwcowka, diocese of Krakow, in 1876, the ninth of ten children of the Siwiec family. She was called by all by the diminutive of Kundusia. She breathed in the serenity of...
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Francis of the Child Jesus was born in Villapalacios (Albacete - Spain) in 1544 and spent a youth full of hardships as a shepherd. At the age of twenty he moved to Alcalá de Henares, where...
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Joachim of the Queen of Peace was born in Sassello, Province of Savona, Italy, on February 12, 1890, to Giacomo Ramognino and Caterina Badano. He was baptized with the name of James Peter. The father preferred...
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John of Jesus Mary was born in the town of Calahorra in Spain on January 27, 1564 to Diego de San Pedro and Anna De Ustarroz. At the university of Alcalà de Henares, together with studies...
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John Vincent of Jesus Mary was born in Bérriz (Vizcaya – northern Spain) in 1862. Of noble and austere Basque lineage of soldiers, educated in a family full of affection, while still a boy he broke...
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Jean Thierry was born on February 4, 1982 and travelled Cameroon from one end to the other, following his father, who for work reasons had to change residence every two or three years. An inseparable companion...
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Magdalene of St Joseph was born in Paris, to a Turonese family, on May 17, 1578, the sixth of fifteen children. She grew up in Paris and Tours, where, in 1603, she met Pierre de Bérulle...
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Marcellus of the Virgin of Carmel was born in Kiskomárom (now Zalakomár), Hungary, on September 9, 1887. At the age of 38 he left everything to enter Carmel definitively. After his ordination he was appointed master...
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Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament was born in Beaune, France, on February 7, 1619. Her parents, Pierre Parigot and Jeanne Battaille, were both middle-class influential and wealthy. They very quickly directed their child to an authentically...
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Maria Antonia of Jesus was born in Cuntis, Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), on the 6th of October, 1700. She was educated from an early age to have a deep faith and to work. The...
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The Venerable Servant of God, Maria Carmen of the Most Holy Trinity (Civil name: Carmen Caterina Bueno) was born in Itu, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, on November 25, 1898. Her parents were Teotônio...
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She was born in Terni, Italy, on the 28th of January 1605, the third daughter of the nobleman Alessandro. At the age of twenty-one, together with her sister Lucia, she entered the recently founded monastery of...
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Maria Giselda Villela was born in 1909, in Maria da Fé, MG, Brazil. Fiery and restless, intelligent and stubborn, she wanted to mount a wild horse, which caused her to fall off onto the ground and,...
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Lucia Dos Santos, born in Portugal to a very humble family, was the recipient, together with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, of a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, in the locality of Cova...
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Born in Versailles (France) on the 15th of July 1737, she was the daughter of King Louis XV and Maria Leszczynska. In April 1770, with the consent of her father, the King of France, she entered...
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Maria Luisa Resende Marques was born in Brazil on December 24, 1915, in Borda da Mata, in the state of Minas Gerais. She felt she had a religious vocation but her father at first opposed it....
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His name was Zacarias Salterain Bizkarra and he was born in Abadiano (Vizcaya, Spain) on November 4, 1887; he did his first studies at the Jesuit college of Durango in Spain; at the age of 15...
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