The "positio" presents a critical and in-depth report on all the documentary evidence and testimonies regarding the heroic virtues of the Servant of God. The reporter was Fr Zdzisław Kijas, OFM Conv., with Dr Maria Ludovica Zanet as collaborator. A special mention goes to the Salesian Fr Raffaele Giordano, Vice-Postulator, to whom the cause of beatification and canonization of Fr Vandor was entrusted at the diocesan phase. He devoted himself energetically to this cause until the end of his life.
The Positio consists of a brief presentation by the Rapporteur; the Informatio, which is the theological part in which it is proved that the Servant of God practised all the Christian virtues in a heroic way and the Summarium with the testimony of witnesses and documentary evidence.
José Vandor was born in Dorog, Hungary on 29 October 1909. He confided to his parish priest that he wanted to become a priest and missionary. The parish priest introduced him to the Salesian Institute in Péliföldszentkereszt where Vandor began his Salesian formation. It was here he did his novitiate and made his first profession in 1928. Eight years later, on 5 July 1936, he was ordained priest. In the same year he was sent as a missionary to Cuba and so he realized the dream that had been growing in the secret of his heart since childhood.
His only concern in his forty years of work on Cuban soil was to do good and take care of the salvation of souls. His personality, his spirituality and his pastoral creativity left a deep impression in the diocese of Santa Clara. Fr Vandor arrived in Santa Clara on 9 December 1954 to take charge of the construction of the Rosa Pérez Velasco Institute of Arts and Crafts. While there he looked after the pastoral care of the Church of Our Lady of Carmel.
Fr Vandor can be compared to St Francis de Sales for his patient docility, prudent dedication and wisdom in the spiritual direction of souls, and to St John Bosco for his apostolic dynamism, love for the poorest, spirit of faith, serene cheerfulness and cordial manners. He died in Santa Clara on 8 October 1979.
Published 02/03/2016

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