Posted: October 10, 2007
Events for the beatification of the Spanish martyrs
(ANS – Rome) –The beatification of the Salesians Henry Saiz Aparicio and 62 companions martyrs, together with 435 other Spanish martyrs will take place on Saturday October 28, 2007.
The ceremonies honoring the Spanish Martyrs will be held over three days beginning with a prayer Vigil on Saturday, October 27th in the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls at 6:30 p.m.
The solemn concelebration of beatification will be at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican and will be presided over by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Pope Benedict XVI will conclude the morning with the Angelus.
The celebrations for the beatification of the 498 Spanish martyrs including the Salesian martyrs will conclude on Monday, October 29th with a Mass of Thanksgiving in St Peter’s Basilica at which Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, and a Salesian, will preside.
Decree of Martyrdom for the Servant of God Fr. Enrico Saiz Aparicio and 62 companions martyrs
The exhumation of the remains of the Spanish Martyrs
and the initiation of the diocesan process towards canonization. 1956 (ASC)
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(Vatican City: June 27, 2006) - The Holy Father approved the decree of martyrdom of 63 Spanish Servants of God from the Madrid and Seville Provinces killed “in odium fidei” during the religious persecutions in 1936-1937. In this way the long process begun in 1956-1957 as two separarate causes – Enrico Aparicio and 41 companions from Madrid and Antonio Torrero and 20 companions from Seville – and then combined in one cause in 1985 draws to its conclusion. Among the 63 new martyrs are 56 professed Salesians - 22 priests, 18 Brothers, 2 subdeacons, 14 clerics - a novice, 2 aspirants, 2 male Cooperators and one female Cooperator and a lay collaborator.
On the occasion of the Beatification of the 63 Salesian Servants of God together with the non-Salesian Spanish martyrs from 22 other causes, there will be a total of 497 new Beati. The Salesain Family will see its number of Beati more than doubled and the martyrs of Madrid and Seville will join Blessed Joseph Calasanz and his 31 companions who were beatified in 2001.
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