Year VI - Number 271
7 June 2013
Marist News 271
Marist Brothers - General House - Rome
Brother Crisanto and 67 companions martyrs Approbation of the Cause of Beatification
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t is with great joy that we share some good news with you : we have just received from the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the DECREE of beatification of Br Crisanto and his 67 companions martyrs, signed by Pope Francis. They will be beatified on 13 October this year in Tarragona, Spain. Let us thank God, the Blessed Virgin and Champagnat, as well as our Brothers who were declared blessed in 2007, for being able to count, for the Church and for the Institute, on this pleiad of martyrs, witnesses and models in the faith. I invite you to have a thought in your prayers for Br Gabriele Andreucci and his collaborators, who worked ardently in the drawing up of the Positio for this Cause.
Burning embers, witnesses to the faith On the occasion of the feast of the Founder of the Marist Congregation, Saint Marcellin Champagnat, on 6 June, Br Emili Turu, the Superior General, published a letter in which the traditional message for the feast was associated with news of the imminent beatification of 66 Marist Brothers and 2 laymen, martyred in Spain. http://www.champagnat.org/000.php?p=340
General Administration The General Council is in plenary session, beginning this week and finishing on 5 July. On 4 June, the members of the presidency of the Latin American Conference of Religious (CLAR) came to the General House. They had Mass with the General Council, supper with the members of the community, and then a time of conviviality and dialogue with the Superior General and the Council. Br Javier Espinosa, of the Secretariat of the Laity, is at Las Avellanas, Spain, co-ordinating the regular meeting of the Enlarged Secretariat from 4 to 6 June.