Great news!
Yesterday, 24 February, during an audience given to the Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State, the Holy Father, Pope Francis authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decree that Blessed Bartolo Longo, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, will be canonized.
Blessed Bartolo is the first layman and member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem to be canonized.
He was a lawyer, ex-Satanist, Dominican tertiary, and founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei.
Blessed Bartolo, pray for us.