Vatican – Validity of Diocesan Inquiry into Cause of Servant of God Vera Grita, Salesian Cooperator

21 December 2022

(ANS - Vatican City) - The Postulator General for the Causes of the Saints of the Salesian Family, Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, has transmitted to the Bishop of Savona-Noli, Bishop Calogero Marino, and the Coordinator of the Study Center Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi, dr. Maria Rita Scrimieri, the news that the Dicastery of the Causes of Saints in its Ordinary Congress of Dec. 14, 2022, gave juridical validity to the diocesan inquiry for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Vera Grita, Lay, Salesian Cooperator, (1923-1969), which closed in Savona last May 15, 2022. This was following the verification carried out regarding the formal aspects of the procedural Acts and the consistency of the evidentiary apparatus: number and quality of witnesses, and documents collected.

The Postulator General, Fr. Cameroni, emphasizes that "this is a great achievement, the fruit of the work done with passion and competence since the day of the presentation of the Supplice Libellus, December 22, 2019, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the Servant of God. Special thanks to the members of the Tribunal and those who have contributed, especially the Historical Commission and the Theological Censors."

The Postulator General will now ask the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to appoint a Relator who will guide in the preparation of the "Positio super vita, virtutibus et fama sanctitatis" of the Servant of God, which will be drafted by Dr. Lodovica Maria Zanet, collaborator of the Postulation.

On the occasion of the anniversary of the birth to heaven of the Servant of God Vera Grita (Dec. 22, 1969) and the planned celebrations for the centenary of her birth, which took place in Rome on Jan. 28, 1923, this news is a source of great joy and an incentive to continue in the animation and promotion of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Vera Grita, a mystic of the Eucharist.

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