Today, 14 June, Pope Francis received in a private audience Angelo Cardinal Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience with the Holy Father, he authorized the Congregation to promulgate the decrees regarding……the heroic virtue of the Servant of God Bernard of the Annunciation (in history: Bernardo de Vasconcelos) a professed monk of the Order of Saint Benedict; born 7 July 1902 and died 4 July 1932.
He was a monk of Singeverga monastery. He died from spinal tuberculosis.
Brother Bernard will now carry the title of Venerable Servant of God
Bernardo de Vasconcelos.
Let us pray that our new Venerable will be raised the to the altar.