A total 188 seventeenth-century Japanese priests and a nineteenth-century Cuban priest will be beatified next week, the Vatican's Office of Liturgical Celebrations announced on Thursday.Peter Kibe Kasui, Japanese priest of the Company of Jesus, and 187 companions will be beatified in a ceremony at the Nagasaki Big N Stadium in southwest Japan next Monday, the Vatican said.
Jose Olallo Valdes, of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, will be beatified on 29 November in the Plaza de la Caridad in the Cuban city of Camaguey, where he died in 1889.
It will be the Roman Catholic Church's first beatification on Cuban soil.
Kasui and his fellow Christians were killed in Japan between 1603 and 1639. Kasui is known as the “the man who walked the globe” because of his journey to Rome, mostly on foot, in his quest for ordination as a priest. He was hanged in Tokyo in 1639.
Valdes attended cholera patients during the 1835 epidemic and is credited with the "miraculous cure" of three-year-old Danielita Cabrera Ramos.
He will be the second beatified Cuban after Jose Lopez Piteira.
The church last year held a beatification ceremony in Spain for Piteira, who was shot in 1936 during that country's civil war.
Beatification declares a departed person's ability to intercede on the part of the faithful who pray to him. It can lead to sainthood.
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(Source: AKI)