The CGT asked Pope Francis for the beatification of Eva Perón: what are the Vatican's demands?

"Eva Santa del Pueblo". With this slogan, the General Confederation of Labor on Tuesday called for an act in Azopardo 802 for promote the beatification of Eva Perón.

On May 7, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Evita was celebrated, which represented an important event in Los Toldos, which brought together leaders of all expressions of Peronism. Yesterday, as part of the centenary of the birth of the wife of General Juan Domingo Perón, The CGT organized an activity in the hall Felipe Vallese in the afternoon to celebrate the "saint of the city".

In the presence of the board of directors and representatives of the priests of villeros, the CGT issued a statement in which it declared: "Eva Perón gave her life in a providential mandate whose mission was to save the dignity of the human person in its most transcendent sense, a synthesis of a deep faith in his people and in God who, a hundred years after his birth, continues to make the heart popular and in the altars of the humble people next to the Virgin Mary ".

In the last paragraph, the workers' center addressed to Pope Francis: "The pontificate can enlighten a way, if we want to follow the footsteps of our best men and women." Although the announcement is only a first step in the objectives of the CGT, Vatican sources told Infobae that "vows are not enough".

In the document presented, it was justified "that Eva Perón experienced and that is why she preached, the mission to come into the world doing good works that she gave as a gift to the Argentine people and Ibero-American and all peoples thirsting for justice. His love was not complacent, but that of the difficult and painful way of the Cross, of justice and truth. "

Consulted by Infobae About the request, Father Guillermo Marcó made it clear that it "is not usual" that an institution such as the work center requests it. For someone who was the spokesman of Jorge Bergoglio when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, this affair "It's more a popular canonization than to ask the church to actually open a process to consider beatification."

About the process the CGT must follow to obtain the beatification of Evita, the priest explains: "There must be a priest who will appoint a candidate to study the case, the first process is to accept the motives of the postulator, who should be a priest from where the candidate was", in this case, Buenos Aires. After gathering the testimonies of those who met the candidate and before considering the beatification and canonization, "the case is accepted in Rome where the person" servant of God "is declared", detailed Marcó.

In this regard, the Vatican were adamant: "Without a cause badumed by a postulator, there is no course". In other words, without a priest in charge of the initiative, the Holy See can not proceed and the order loses its value.

If a priest advances with the presentation, the candidate – in this case Evita – should then be declared venerable by the Vatican. This indispensable condition of the process of canonization involves several stages in which a court, a censorship commission and the case rapporteur evaluate the writings and testimonies on the plaintiff, then develop a document entitled "Positive", which includes the life and virtues of the person. After being discussed by a commission of theologians, cardinals, bishops and the Congregation for Causes, The last step is the signing of a decree of the Holy Father by which the "servant of God" is considered venerable.

To achieve beatification, the venerable must in principle perform a miracle. It takes two miracles to be proclaimed a saint. However, if the person was martyred, if the case comes, Francisco can avoid the miracle since it is not necessary for his beatification.

Consider Evita Martyr would correspond to the College of Cardinals, that the case will determine whether he suffered persecution and death for defending a religious or ideological cause. On the case of Eva Perón, from Vatican sources, said that "the Christian is a martyr if he dies killed not because of illness" and that the cause is not solved "by popular acclaim".

The request of the CGT added: "In this profoundly Christian, Catholic and humanist setting, this General Confederation of Labor understands the message and the immeasurable work of Eva Perón because, in Argentina, the revolutionary revolution has transformed the suffering and incredulous mbad into a people endowed with 39, a social conscience, a shared faith and an organization, community ".

And he concluded by winking at the Pope: "The rebirth of Argentina is based on the recovery of these spiritual sources of nationality. The pontificate of Francisco can illuminate a path if we want to walk in the footsteps left by our best men and women. "