Fr. Praśkiewicz Szczepan appointed Reporter for the Cause of Br. Basilio Rueda
The coronavirus pandemic has seriously affected the pace of work of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints. From mid-February, when we began to have some news of the pandemic, until mid-June, visits to the offices of the Congregation have been restricted and the bureaucratic process has been slowed down. During this period of time, the Reporter for the Cause of Brother Basilio Rueda has been appointed. He is Fr. Praśkiewicz Szczepan, O.C.D., a Polish national. The cause of canonisation of Brother Basilio officially began in the Vatican from the moment the decree of validity of the process carried out by the diocesan tribunal of Guadalajara was published on 20 December 2019.
Other topics from the Postulator’s Office of the Institute
Brother Lycarion‘s Positio is already at the printer’s to make the copies to be passed on to the experts in History. Brother Lycarion was murdered on 27 July 1909, a witness to the Christian school in the Tragic Week of Barcelona.
And the name of the Postulator General who will replace me from October 2020, when I will have completed my first 80 years, has been made public. He is Brother Guillermo Villarreal of the Province of Western Mexico.
Congregation for the Causes of Saints
Through the renewed web of the Congregation made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its institution with the current structure, it can be seen that in spite of the pandemic, the momentum of the inertia of the work that was already underway has not been hindered. The decrees published on May 26, 2020, of five miracles attributed to the intercession of three priests (one of whom was Blessed Charles de Foucauld) and two nuns, the martyrdom of six Cistercian monks and a Friar Minor and the heroic virtues of a Servant of God were made public. And on June 19, the decrees of a miracle attributed to the intercession of two priests and a layman, the martyrdom of a professed sister and the heroic virtues of a Servant of God were approved. But the celebrations of seven beatifications, already scheduled from May to September, have had to be postponed.
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Br. Antonio Martínez Estaún, Postulator General