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1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).
2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).
Alfonso Maria dello Spirito Santo (Mazurek)
Alphonsus Mary of the Holy Spirit (Mazurek) was born on the first of March, 1891, in Baranówka, near Lubartów, Poland. In 1908 he entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Czerna, taking the name of Brother Alphonsus Mary of the Holy Spirit. After making his vows, he studied in Kraków, Linz and Vienna, where on 16th of July 1916 he was ordained a priest. From 1920 to 1930 he worked in the minor seminary of the Discalced Carmelites in Wadowice as a teacher and educator of boys. From 1930 he held the position of Prior and Bursar of the Czerna monastery.
Attentive and delicate in the various community services and assiduous in the ministry of confessions, he encouraged everyone to a tender and solid devotion to Our Lady. His apostolic zeal and fidelity to the Lord were the fruit of continuous prayer and devotion to Jesus Crucified.
He remained faithful to his vocation during the years of Nazi persecution. He was captured and shot by the Nazis on August 28, 1944 in Nawojowa Góra, near Krzeszowice: he gave his soul to God while praying the rosary.
The decree on martyrdom was promulgated on March 26, 1999. The beatification ceremony took place in Warsaw on 13th of June 1999.
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1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).
2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).
Teresa Margherita del Cuore di Maria
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. She managed to convince him and entered the Carmel of Mogi das Cruzes on the 28th of May 1937, as a postulant. When she entered the novitiate, she received the habit and chose as her religious name Teresa Margherita of the Heart of Mary. She made her religious vows on the 2nd of February, 1942.
Sister Teresa Margherita was elected assistant-mistress of novices and, at the age of thirty, was elected sub-prioress of the convent. She also served as organist and turn sister.
In 1962 she was sent to found and direct a new convent, the Carmel of São José in Três Pontas (MG). Together with seven nuns, she arrived in Três Pontas to begin the new foundation on July 16, 1962, the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. It was 400 years after St Teresa’s first foundation, the first Carmel of St. Joseph in Avila, Initially, the community lived in a small house and later, on January 22nd, 1969, the community moved to the definitive Monastery. On several occasions she was Prioress, Sub-Prioress, Mistress of Novices. She took care of the biblical, spiritual and liturgical formation of the sisters in her community.
She died on the 14th of November, 2005.
The diocesan inquiry into her "life, virtue and reputation for holiness" closed on May 12, 2013. On the 28th of March 2014, the decree of validity was granted.
Il decreto sulle virtù eroiche è stato promulgato il 20 maggio 2023.Procedure - Teresa Margherita del Cuore di Maria
1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).
2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).
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