25 Servants of God stepped to Sainthood

During the audience granted to His Most Reverend Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, today on June 18,2026, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same Dicastery to promulgate the Decrees regarding:

the martyrdom of 20 Servants of God and the heroic virtues of 5 Servants of God, including the Servant of God Júlio Maria De Lombaerde who founded 3 religious congregations.

the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has been authorized to to promulgate the Decrees regarding:

- the martyrdom of the Servants of God Juan Torres Torres and 19 companions, diocesan priests, killed in hatred of the faith between August and September 1936, in the territory of the diocese of Ibiza, Spain, in the context of the same persecution;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Júlio Maria De Lombaerde (né Júlio Emilio Alberto), professed priest of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Family and Founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Congregation of the Missionaries of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, and the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, born in Waregem, Belgium, on 7 January 1878 and died near the present-day municipality of Alto Jequitibá, Brazil, on 24 December 1944;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Mary Teresa Tallon (née Julia Teresa), founder of the Congregation of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate, born on 6 May 1867 in Hanover, United States of America, and died on 10 March 1954 in Monroe, United States of America;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Agnese Tribbioli, professed religious sister and founder of the Congregation of the Pious Worker Sisters of Saint Joseph, born on 20 April 1879 in Florence, Italy, and died there on 27 January 1965;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Clara Andreu y Malferit (née Barbara Onofria), professed nun of the Hieronymite Monastery of Saint Bartomeu of Inca, born on 4 December 1596 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and died on 24 June 1628 in Inca, Spain;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Petra Giordano (née Nicoletta), professed nun of the Order of Preachers, born on 4 July 1912 in Naples, Italy, and died on 21 June 2006 in Bibbiena, Italy.