An Ordinary Public Consistory presided over by the Holy Father took place this morning in the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace, during which it was decided that the following
Blesseds will be canonized on May 16:
– Blessed Luigi Orione, priest and founder of the Little Work of Divine
Providence and of the Congregation of the Little Sisters, Missionaries of
Charity.
– Blessed Annibale Maria di Francia, priest and founder of the Congregation
of the Rogationist Fathers of the Heart of Jesus and of the Religious
Daughters of Divine Generosity.
– Blessed Jose Manyanet y Vives, priest and founder of the Congregation of
the Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Missionary
Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
– Blessed Nimatullah Al Hardini, priest of the Lebanese Maronite Order.
– Blessed Paola Elisabetta, nee Costanza Cerioli, widow Busecchi-Tassis,
foundress of the Institute of Religious of the Holy Family.
– Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian woman who chose to give birth to her fourth child rather than have an abortion that might have saved her life.
