Pope Leo XIV, Cardinals To Meet On Canonization Approval
By Stella Enenche, with agency report
Pope Leo XIV will hold a meeting of cardinals to give the final approval to the canonization of several beautified men and women on June 13,the Vatican has disclosed.
The Vatican on Wednesday said the ordinary public consistory, as it is called, will be the first of Leo’s pontificate.
TheFact Daily recalled that Pope Francis had called for the consistory in late February, when he was in the hospital, but the date was never set.
At the consistory, cardinals will vote to approve the canonizations of five beatified men and women whose causes were advanced earlier this year by Pope Francis.
The vote of the cardinals marks the final step in the canonization process and allows a date for the Mass of canonization to be set.
Among the almost-canonized saints expected to be discussed on June 13 is Blessed Bartolo Longo (also known as Bartholomew Longo).
Longo, an Italian layman and lawyer, was a former Satanist “priest” who returned to the practice of the Catholic faith through the influence of Mary and the rosary.
The canonization of the Venezuelan “doctor of the poor,” José Gregorio Hernández, is also expected be voted on at the June 13 consistory, along with Pietro To Rot, the first blessed from Papua New Guinea; Vincenza Maria Poloni, the founder of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona; and Ignazio Maloyan, a bishop martyred in the Armenian genocide in 1915.
The consistory will take place in the consistory hall in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace with all of the cardinals resident or otherwise present in Rome. It usually begins with a short time of prayer.
The Vatican also disclosed a slew of liturgies to be celebrated by Pope Leo XIV in June, including a Mass at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran followed by a Eucharistic procession through Rome to the Basilica of St. Mary Major for the solemnity of Corpus Christi on June 22.
