Thursday, February 28, 2008

Canonizations to be scheduled for 4 new saints

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has announced plans for a consistory on March 1 to schedule the canonization of four new saints.

They are:

Blessed Gaetano Errico (1791- 1860), an Italian priest;

Blessed Maria Bernarda Butler (1848-1924), a Swiss nun;

Blessed Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception (1910- 1946), born Anna Muttathupandathu, an Indian nun;

and Blessed Narcisa de Jesus Martillo Moran (1863- 1869), an Ecuadorian lay woman (1833-1869).
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