The CGT will ask the Pope for the beatification of Evita: how is the process going?

The General Confederation of Labor (

CGT

) announced yesterday that it would ask the

Catholic Church

the beatification of Maria Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Evita. The process, long and multi-step, should start in the

Argentina

.

"They will ask for the beatification process." Many humble asked him, personally or in front of Evita 's image, they often came to ask for things and many of them were filled, "said Héctor Daer, secretary General of the Argentine Health Workers Union and the CGT.

"The figure of Evita is a symbol for a sector more than important, the vast majority of the Argentine society, and that is why it is saved in this way," added the unionist.

In dialogue with
Radio networkDaer said that the request "will go through a normal route, by the Cardinal of the City of Buenos Aires" and said that there is already "a commission of many young people who work and collect" information for the report on the life and virtues of Evita.

"There are a lot of people, great people, Eva's contemporaries, who asked for things and who felt that these things came from there," he summed up.
Daer, who pointed out that the Church "will have the final decision" on "whether the beatification is viable or not."

To declare a person "blessed" – a step before being "holy" – one must prove one's reputation for holiness (the faithful would have asked him for grace and favors for God) and the realization of a miracle.

Cegetista sources said they would like to visit the

dad Francisco

in June, at a stage of the planned trip to the summit of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva,

Swiss

, and this could be used to make order face to face.

However, Vatican sources said
THE NATION that "the Pope does not enter this phase" and that "it is above all a question for the local Church".

"The praxis is that, if there is evidence, the bishop of the place where the person died must open the file and conduct an investigation," added the sources. Evita died in Buenos Aires. The head of the church of Buenos Aires is the cardinal

Mario Poli

If this phase "ends positively", the bishop must send the documentation to the Congregation for the Cause of Saints, at the Vatican, "which examines and if it decides to give the green light, the pope intervenes" .

"It is not something overnight, nor something political, it has to do with holiness," ecclesiastical sources concluded.

How is the beatification process going?

• The diocesan bishop and the postulator of the cause ask to begin the process of canonization and to present to the Holy See a report on the life and virtues of the person.
• The Vatican, through the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, examines the report and publishes the decree (
  Nihil obstat) that allows the beginning of the process.
• Obtained on the
  Nihil obstat, the diocesan bishop dictates the decree of introduction of the cause of the now "Servant of God".
• A court, appointed by the bishop, receives the testimony of persons who knew the person. This tribunal does not pronounce a sentence reserved for the Congregation for the Saints' Cause.
• A commission of censors, also indicated by the bishop, badyzes the orthodoxy of the writings of the "Servant of God".
• The reporter of the cause – appointed by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints – prepares a document entitled
  positio, which includes the testimonies of the witnesses, the main aspects of the life and the virtues of the person.
• Discussion of the
  positioThis document is discussed by a commission of consulting theologians appointed by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Then, solemn meeting with the cardinals and the bishops.
• If the Congregation for the Causes of Saints approves the
  positio, the Holy Father dictates the decree of heroism of virtues and the "Servant of God" becomes considered "venerable".
• The postulator of the cause must prove before the Congregation for the Cause of the Saints: the fame of the holiness of the "venerable" (list of thanks and favors asked of God by the faithful through this person) and the realization of a miracle attributed to the intercession of the "venerable".
• The Congregation for the Causes of Saints examines the miracle presented. The extraordinary event presented is discussed by a congress of theologians of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
• At a solemn meeting of cardinals and bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the final verdict on the "miracle" is pronounced: if the verdict is positive, the prefect of the congregation orders that the corresponding decree be submitted for approval. of the Holy Father.
• Last step: the Holy Father approves the beatification decree. The pope then determines the date of the liturgical ceremony.