Pope Approves Decree for the Saint’s Cause of Melkite religious, Venerable Fr Bechara Abou-Mourad

In a decree dated the 10th December 2010, Benedict XVI recognised the Heroic virtues of the following four people, now Servants of God:

– Antonio Palladino, Italian diocesan priest and founder of the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (1881-1926).

– Bechara (born Selim Abou-Mourad), Lebanese religious of the Basilian Salvatorian Order of the Melkites (1853-1930).

– Maria Elisa Andreoli, Italian founder of the Congregation of Reparatrix Sisters Servants of Mary (1861-1935).

– Maria Pilar of the Sacred Heart (born Maria Pilar Solsona Lamban), Spanish religious of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary, Religious of Pious Schools (1881-1966).

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