The saints and all candidates for holiness are witnesses and pilgrims of hope who have accepted the Lord's promise here and now, in this suffering and groaning land, and who invite us to move "without delay" towards God, rediscovering the greatest hope in him and then bring it without delay, as pilgrims of light in the darkness of the world.
We need to express deep gratitude and praise to God for the holiness already recognised in the Salesian Family of Don Bosco and for others in process of recognition. The outcome of a Cause of Beatification and Canonisation is an event of extraordinary importance and ecclesial value. It is a matter of discerning the reputation of holiness of a baptised person who has lived the evangelical beatitudes to a heroic degree or who has given his or her life for Christ.
The Salesian Postulation involves 173 individuals among Saints (10), Blesseds (117), Venerables (20), Servants of God (26). There are 58 Causes directly followed by the Postulation (plus 5 extra).
The Dossier, the Postulator General for the Causes of Saints of the Salesian Family, Fr Pierluigi Cameroni says, after reporting the list and status of each Cause, presents the events of 2024, including the inauguration and blessing, on Tuesday 4 June 2024, at the Zeffirino Namuncurà community in Rome, by the then Rector Major, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, of the new premises of the Salesian General Postulation: library, archives, custody of relics, offices.
In addition, the following deserve to be remembered:
16 January 2024: at the chapel of the Bocage Foundation in Chambéry, the canonical recognition and conservative treatment of the mortal remains of the venerable Camille Costa de Beauregard (1841-1910), a diocesan priest.
14 March 2024: the authorisation by Pope Francis to promulgate the Decree concerning the miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Camillo Costa de Beauregard, a diocesan Priest; born in Chambéry (France) on 17 February 1841 and died there on 25 March 1910.The miracle, which took place in 1910, concerns the child René Jacquemond, cured of "intense keratoconjunctivitis with grinding of the cornea, strong pericheratic injection, redness and injection of the conjunctiva, photophobia and tearing of the right eye due to violent trauma from a plant-bardanian agent".
15 March 2024: in Lahore (Pakistan) closure of the diocesan Inquiry into the Cause of Beatification and Canonisation of Akash Bashir (1994-2015), Layman, past pupil of Don Bosco, killed in hatred of the faith. It is the first Cause of Beatification in Pakistan.
28 April 2024: in Cuautitlán (Mexico) closure of the diocesan Inquiry into the Cause of the Servant of God Antonieta Böhm (1907-2008), Daughter of Mary Help of Christians.
5 May 2024: in Modica (Ragusa) closure of the diocesan Inquiry of the Servant of God Antonino Baglieri (1951-2007), Layman, Volunteer with Don Bosco.
31 May 2024: delivery of the Positio super Vita, Virtutibus et Fama Sanctitatis of the Servant of God Oreste Marengo (1906-1998), Salesian missionary bishop in North East India.
25 November 2024: authorisation by Pope Francis to promulgate the Decree concerning
- the miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Maria Troncatti, professed Sister of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, born in Córteno Golgi (Italy) on 16 February 1883 and died in Sucúa (Ecuador) on 25 August 1969. Miraculous healing of a man from "Open cranio-encephalic trauma with comminuted fracture of the skull case, loss of brain substance and exposure of brain tissue in the right fronto-parieto-temporal area, widespread axonal damage (DAI), severe coma evolved in a vegetative state of type 2", which took place in 2015 in Ecuador.
28 November 2024: delivery of the Positio super martyrio of the Servants of God Rodolfo Lunkenbein, Priest and professed member of the Society of St Francis de Sales, and Simão Bororo, Layman, killed in hatred of the faith on 15 July 1976.
3 December 2024: The Theological Consultants answered in the affirmative regarding the Positio super martyrio of the Servants of God Jan Świerc and 8 Companions, Priests and professed members of the Society of St Francis de Sales, killed in odium fidei in the Nazi death camps in the years 1941-1942.
18 December 2024: authorisation from Pope Francis to promulgate the Decree concerning: the martyrdom of the Servant of God Elia Comini, a Priest and professed member of the Society of St Francis de Sales; born on 7 May 1910 in Calvenzano di Vergato (Italy, Bologna) and killed, in hatred of the Faith, in Pioppe di Salvaro (Italy, Bologna) on 1 October 1944.
Finally, the commitment to disseminate the knowledge, imitation and intercession of the members of the Salesian Family candidates for holiness is recalled, valuing and caring for different aspects: liturgical and celebratory, spiritual, pastoral, ecclesial, educational, cultural, historical, social, missionary...
At the bottom of the page you can download the Postulation Dossier – in Italian, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese – updated to 31 December 2023. It is also possible to download the 2024 Salesian Family Holiness Poster designed and created by graphic designer Andrea Cugini.
