Pope Francis canonized Cardinal Newman

Cardinal John Henry Newman (from England) and Blessed Giuseppina Vanini (from Italy), María Teresa Chiramel Mankidiyan (from India), Marguerite Bays (from Switzerland) and Dulce Lopes Pontes (from Brazil) ) were canonized this Sunday by Pope Francis at the Vatican.

The celebration that took place this morning in the St. Peter's Square in front of thousands of faithful, he had the unprecedented act of proclaiming for the first time as a saint a Brazilian religious.

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Born in Salvador de Bahia and known as Irma Dulce, Sister Dulce Lopez Pontes was also known asMother teresa of Brazilian calcuttaFor his dedication to the poor and needy.

The nun developed important social work in her home country, where she founded several charitable hospitals and a social support system that she directed until her death on March 13, 1992, while she was 77 years old.

His rise to holiness occurred 27 years after his death, making it the third fastest process in recent history after John Paul II (nine years after his death) and St. Theresa of Calcutta (19 years old). after his death). his death).

After the dad Francisco listen to the biography of the five new saints, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciuread the petition to proceed with the canonization of the blessed.

"Most Holy Father, the Blessed Mother Church asks your Holiness to inscribe the Blessed John Henry Newman, Giuseppina Vannini, Mariam Thresia, Chiramel Mankidiyan, Dulce Lopes Pontes and Marguerite Bays in the book of saints and, as such, invoked by all Christians, "said Becciu.

Then, Pope Francis read the following formula to declare Holy Cardinal Newman and the four blessed people: "In honor of the Holy Trinity, for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the growth of life Christian, with the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, the holy apostles Peter, Paul and our own, having thought long, invoking God's help many times and hearing the opinion of many brethren of the Episcopate, declare and define the blessed John Henry Newman, Giuseppina Vannini, Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan, Dulce Lopes Pontes and Marguerite Bays and we inscribe them in the Book of Saints, and we establish that throughout the Church she is honored with devotion among the saints. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. "

Next to the altar, at the top of the staircase leading to St. Peter's Basilica, was an image of the Virgin at the foot of which five reliquaries were placed with the relics of the new saints.

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• Cardinal John Henry Newman: founder of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in England, this religious was one of the most prominent converts of Anglicanism in the nineteenth century for the Catholic Church. He was a preacher, a renowned theologian and the author of 40 books and 21,000 letters. He was born in London in 1801. He was created cardinal in 1879 and has for motto "Cor ad cor loquitur" (The heart speaks to the heart). He died in Edgbaston (England) in 1890. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 in England. A traditional school in San Isidro has been named in his honor and several members of the current government have graduated.
• Beata Giuseppina VaniniHe was born in Rome in 1859, at the age of four, lost his father and, three years later, his mother, separated from his two brothers, was received at the Torlonia Conservatory of Rome. He decided to enter the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity of Siena, a congregation of the Vincentian Sisters. However, because of his fragile health, he had to return to Rome in 1887, where he resumed his religious training. In 1892, she joined an organization dedicated to the care of the sick, the Daughters of San Camilo, and three years later, her director was appointed. In 1910, the health status of Giusepppona Vannini deteriorated because of serious heart problems. He died in 1911. On October 16, 1994, he was beatified by St. John Paul II thanks to the miracle performed in Olga Nuñez of Buenos Aires, suffering from melanoma and healed by his prayers. The second miracle, which will allow his canonization, Arno Celson Klauck, builder of Sinop (Brazil), who fell from the third floor through the elevator shaft by installing wooden beams. He invoked the help of the religious while he had fallen miraculously and that he was found only with bruises.
• María Teresa Chiramel MankidiyanHe was born April 26, 1876 in Puthenchira, Querala (India). As a child, she loved to pray the rosary several times a day and devoted herself to religious life with only 10 years. In 1903, he founded a retirement and prayer house and entered the convent of the Franciscan Clarisses. On May 14, 1914, the new order called the Congregation of the Holy Family was canonically erected. During and after the difficult years of the First World War, with indomitable energy and total trust in Divine Providence, he gave life to three new convents, two schools, a study house and an orphanage. Maria Teresa dies with a reputation for holiness on June 8, 1926.
• Marguerite Bays: She is a secular Swiss seamstress, born in 1815, who received the stigma of the Passion of Christ and was cured of cancer after asking for the intercession of the Virgin, the very day of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. "Since then, for the Bays, other suffering and mystical experiences have begun: I remained motionless in bed in ecstasy every Friday at 3 pm and throughout Holy Week. Stigmata appeared on his hands, feet and side, a phenomenon that the Blessed "first sought to conceal" and then revealed to the bishop. A medical investigation "has attested to the mysterious origin of injuries," Avvenire said. June 27, 1879, St. John Paul II, October 29, 1995, beatified by St. John Paul II. Marguerite had a strong faith since childhood, but she did not feel called to religious life, but she remained single to worship. of his family and neighbor as a catechist.