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Rudolf of the Transverberation was born on November 14, 1919 in Bachowice, (Poland) not far from Wadowice, in the archdiocese of Krakow, into a practicing and farming family.

He completed his middle-classical studies in the grammar school of the Discalced Carmelites in Wadowice, after which he was welcomed into the novitiate of the Order in Czerna near Krakow, where on August 28, 1935 he received from the hands of the prior, Blessed Alfonsus Mary Mazurek, the Carmelite habit. He studied in Wadowice and Krakow. Having made his solemn profession in Krakow on 21^st of November 1940, he was ordained priest in Czerna on 24^th of June 1944.

For many years of his religious life, he worked in the formation of novices and students as a teacher, educating entire generations of Polish Discalced Carmelite religious. He was also spiritual director of numerous people, lay and consecrated, as well as diocesan priests. The esteem in which the religious held him is also documented by the fact that three times they chose him as a Provincial Definitor.

In the last years of his life, he stayed in the Wadowice monastery as spiritual father of the boys of the College and as a highly esteemed chaplain of the sick in the city hospital. Struck by the incurable disease of cancer, he heroically endured suffering, and a few hours before his death, he received in the hospital the welcome visit of Fr. Camillo Maccise, Superior General of the Order, who was carrying out a pastoral visit of the Province of Krakow. The blessing received by Father General was his last pact in the Order of his total self-giving to Christ and to his neighbour, for the good of the Church.

He died on February 27, 1999.

The Diocesan Inquiry into his «Life, Virtue and Reputation for Holiness» was held from 11^th of January 2011 to 11^th of June 2017 at the Krakow Archdiocese. On 18^th of May 2018 the decree of validity was granted.

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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Raffaele Carlo Rossi was born in Pisa on October 28, 1876.

Soon his parents separated, leaving in him a deep nostalgia that was reflected throughout his life. However, he maintained contact with both parents and managed to reconcile them on the eve of their death. He attended high school in Pisa, where he met the Catholic scholar Giuseppe Toniolo.

Although hindered by his father, in 1898 he entered the Discalced Carmelite friars and professed his religious vows in December 1899. In 1901 he was ordained a priest.

He was appointed Consultor of the then «Holy Office» as Coadjutor and successor of the Carmelite bishop Msgr. Steiaert. This was followed by the appointment of Visitator to some dioceses and seminaries. On 25^th of May 1920, he was consecrated bishop. It was Pope Benedict XV who personally chose him as bishop of Volterra. He did everything to divert the appointment by resorting to the Pontiff himself, citing as a difficulty his condition as a religious unprepared for such a lofty task. But his reasons were worthless, in the face of the resolute will of the Pope. In the Tuscan city, Rossi's activity was directed primarily to the care of the seminary and the new priests, convinced, as he was, of the need for priests prepared for the new century.

Transferred to Rome as Assessor of the Consistorial, as today's Congregation of Bishops was then called, and appointed titular Archbishop of Thessalonica, he was given other delicate positions: Consultor of studies to the seminaries, of the Secretariat of State, of the Religious, of the Rites. Pope Pius XI, after the successful conclusion of the concordat between the Holy See and Italy, wanted to reward him, in 1930, with the conferral of the colours of a Cardinal.

After a few months he was appointed Secretary of the Consistorial. Despite his curia assignments, Rossi tried as much as possible to preserve the ascetic life proper to the Discalced Carmelites. The offices of Popes Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI and Pius XII were many and numerous, in particular the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In these years he also devoted himself to the care of emigrants. This interest was born, in particular, when he was appointed Counsellor of the Consistorial and had the task of following the religious congregation of the Scalabrinians, founded by Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini. This was born within the Church for the formation of missionaries responsible for the spiritual assistance of emigrants in different parts of the world. The newly formed Scalabrinian congregation suffered a certain crisis and Rossi worked to try to relaunch it.

His intervention was so effective, that he was considered almost a second founder of the congregation. This socio-charitable activity developed during the war period, when the pontifical bodies of the POA and ONARMO had to deal with assistance to the displaced. This intense charitable activity seemed to reconcile, in the eyes of most, this ascetic man of the curia with the teaching of his teacher, the sociologist Giuseppe Toniolo.

In August 1948, due to the worsening of some medical problems, he went to Crespano del Grappa to the Scalabrinian religious, hoping for a general recovery assisted by the climate and contact with nature.

He died on the night of 16 and 17 September 1948 at the age of 71.

Currently, in the process for his beatification and canonization, his «life, virtue and reputation for holiness» is being studied in the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

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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Peter of the Mother of God was born in Daroca (Zaragoza ─ Spain) in 1565.

He made his profession in Pastrana on 23^rd of January 1583 and around 1590, still a deacon, he was sent to Italy as a companion for Fr. John of St Jerome, the Procurator General of the Spanish Congregation in Rome. His first commitment was to help the Procurator, who was also in charge of shopping at the market. This gave him the opportunity to mingle among the people and to master the language, which is indispensable for someone like him born as an orator.

From 1593 to 1595 he was sent to the house of St. Anne in Genoa. In 1596, at the invitation of Cardo Pinelli, protector of the Order, he returned to Rome again to preach Lent. His sermons produced such an effect in the Eternal City that Pope Clement VIII later appointed him Apostolic Preacher, an office in which Leo XI and Paul V confirmed him.

On August 26, 1608 in Nocera Umbra in the monastery of the Conventual Fathers, where he was by order of the Pope to cure himself of his many annoying evils, he gave his soul to God at the age of just 43 years.