NEW SAINTS FOR 2020

 Update on future saints we have dealt with in past Blogs.

A miracle was recognized through the intercession of the Venerable CARLO ACUTIS  (Blog 7/10/18) a teen who was born on May 3, 1991, in London and died on October 12, 2006, in Monza, Italy.  

The young catechist had an ardent devotion to the Eucharist and the Virgin Mary.  A normal boy who loved studying and playing football was also worked for homeless people and helped in soup kitchens. 

He is known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world and cataloging them all onto a website that he himself created in the months before his death from leukemia at the age of 15.  He has been cleared for beatification. Youth of today need a patron for the internet!

Also to be beatified are RUTILIO GRANDE GARCIA, (Blog 5/27/17)  a Jesuit priest, and his 2 lay companions, who were killed in hatred of the faith in El Salvador on March 12, 1977. 

Murdered before the start of the Salvadoran civil war, Father Grande, who was a close friend of fellow Salvadoran and martyr, St Oscar Romero, became an icon for human rights in rural Latin America.  

Known for his vigorous defense of poor, the Jesuit priest, an elderly man and a teenager were shot by a right-wing death squad as they were travelling in a car outside the village where he was born. 

The horror that the assassination of Fr. Grande generated led Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador to take up the Jesuit’s mantle as a defender of the poor.  Three years later, the archbishop would succumb to the assassins' bullets for his outspoken criticism of the military and work on behalf of El Salvador's oppressed.

The decree on the martyrdom of Fr. Grande and his two companions does away with the need for a miracle through their intercession to qualify for beatification, the final step before sainthood, for which a miracle would be required.  The beatification date will be declared at a later date.

Servant of God MARIO HIRIAT PULIDO,  a lay person was born in Santiago de Chile in 1931 and died in Milwaukee, WI in 1964 will become Venerable.