Vatican City, Dec 18, 2007 / 13:47 pm
Pope Benedict XVI authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on Monday to publish and circulate the decrees of miracles attributed to the intercession of six Servants of God and the decrees of the heroic virtues of eight people, including Antonietta Meo, a six year-old Italian girl known as “Nennolina,” and Manuel Lozano Garrido, a Spanish handicapped layman who was a journalist and writer.
The Holy Father promulgated the decrees on Monday, opening the door to the beatification and possible canonization for the following individuals:
Michele Sopocko, diocesan priest: born in Juszewszczyna the region of Vilnius (before in Poland, now in Lithuania) on November 1, 1888, and died in Białystok (Poland) on February 15, 1975;
Giacomo Da Ghazir Haddad (born as Khalil), priest of the Capuchin Order of Franciscans and founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Cross in Lebanon; born in Ghazir (Lebanon) on February 1, 1875, and died in Beirut (Lebanon) on June 26, 1954;