Maria Antonia of Jesus was born in Cuntis, Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), on the 6^th of October, 1700.

She was educated from an early age to have a deep faith and to work. The sufferings endured and the graces received in childhood foreshadowed a future mysticism. In the year 1722, the day of the feast of St. Joseph, to whom she was very devoted, she was married. After the birth of two children and the emigration of her husband for economic reasons, she heard the Lord's invitation to follow him. She did so, with a life of total self-renunciation, in continuous prayer and in absolute availability to the Lord's action. She was enriched with gifts of various mystical phenomena that also manifested themselves outwardly: although illiterate, for example, she could read and write without the help of teachers.

She was endowed with such apostolic dynamism that she brought to God all those she met on her journey. Witnesses to all this were her husband, children, and a group of young girls, some of whom consecrated themselves to God in religious institutes. She reached the peak of her spiritual life in 1729, after numerous purifications and graces.

On March 19, 1734, she consecrated herself to God, and so did her husband. She entered the monastery of Santa Maria del Corpus Christi in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). In 1748, together with other sisters, she went to Santiago de Compostela to found a Carmel there. She died there on March 10, 1760.

Il 29 novembre 1997 è stato concesso il decreto di validità al processo diocesano sulla “vita, virtù e fama di santità”.

Il decreto sulle virtù eroiche è stato promulgato il 7 novembre 2018.

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Cerimonia per decreto sulle virtù eroiche

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).

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 Christian life. At the age of 12, Margaret lost both her parents and her uncle a priest, who had donated the ancient cloister to the Carmelites, could not do better than to deliver his niece to the custody of the nuns, entrusting them with the education of the pious girl.

Thus, on September 24, with special permission from the Superiors, she entered Carmel, receiving her First Communion on the same day from the hands of her uncle. According to the custom of the Order, a new name was given to her, which recalled the special grace that was granted that day to the fortunate child: "of the Blessed Sacrament".

From the time of her novitiate, she understood with surprising clarity that God had entrusted her with a particular mission. She was called to make known to the world the treasures of the Divine Childhood and the painful sufferings of the Saviour.

At the Beaune Carmel, Margaret found not only a deep understanding of her devotion and love for the Child Jesus, but also a very fertile soil in which the divine grain of wheat could take root and develop luxuriantly.

In the early years of her religious life, she had to suffer unspeakably under the often harsh and fierce assaults of the perverse enemy. Sometimes it seemed that the poor child had to struggle with "the principalities and the powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against the spirits of evil scattered in the air". But everything served only to purify her love, making sure that she took refuge only at the feet of the Little Jesus.

Every morning and every evening, Margaret spent a long time in prayer before the Little Jesus. When she fell seriously ill and felt her last hour was approaching, she insistently asked to be granted the joy of seeing her dear King of Grace carried close to the infirmary, to be able to look at him and make her ultimate sacrifice under his gaze.

She died in 1648, at the age of 20.

The decree on her heroic virtue was promulgated on December 10, 1905.

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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).

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 of novices and in this role he expressed himself wonderfully as a father, mother, brother, spiritual director, and teacher towards his students.

He became famous in Hungary both as a preacher and as a confessor, becoming spiritual director of various ecclesiastical authorities.  In 1950, his Father Provincial gave him a month's vacation to write the history of his life, answering mainly the basic question of what influence the Virgin Mary had upon his soul. Thus he could better rediscover himself by turning his gaze back to his youth.

The suppression of religious orders in 1950 forced him to leave the monastery, but his hope was unshakable and, from some testimonies collected, it could be seen that he showed a security and certainty completely incomprehensible to most religious. He even made a vow of love, now convinced that nothing could separate him from the love of God.

Father Marcellus had to adapt to living in a family, sharing the room, and having to practice an even narrower poverty than that of the monastery. He could not preach nor celebrate Mass, (which he did however, secretly). He lost the gift of hearing, but even if sick he did not feel useless, indeed he tried to be more receptive to external news, without focusing on his evil. He absorbed the news that came from Rome. In particular, he wrote in his diary the papal speeches, the insights of the Council Fathers about the liturgical reform and the re-evaluation of the role of the laity within the Church.

He died on May 29, 1966 in Budapest, at the dawn of Pentecost Sunday, the feast of Divine Love and his confreres saw in this coincidence an unequivocal sign that the Most Holy Trinity had finally welcomed him into their embrace. 

The decree on his heroic virtue was promulgated on December 9, 2013. 

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