Pope Francis authorizes canonization Argentine Blessed Maria Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, commonly known as Antula’s mother, as the Holy See confirmed today.

Last Tuesday, in an audience with the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the Argentine Pontiff. approved the issuance of a decree on the consecration of Mama Antula.

He did it after acknowledge a supposed miracle happened through the intercession of the hitherto blessed ones.

Maria Antonia (1730-1799) was an Argentine ordained laywoman who carried out difficult spiritual and social work in Argentina.founded the Holy House of Spiritual Exercises in Buenos Aires in 1795, now a historical monument of the country.

In August 2016, she was beatified with a mass mass in the northern province of Santiago del Estero, where she is from, after the Vatican attributed supposed cure in 1904 terminally ill nun of the Daughters of the Divine Savior.

The path to holiness has several stages: the first is to be declared a Worshipful Servant of God; the second is blessed, and the third is holy.

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Reverend Servant of God is a title given to a deceased person recognized “Living the virtues heroically.”

So that the venerable one may be blessed a miracle was about to happen thanks to his intercession, and in order for him to be canonized, canonized, a second miracle is necessary, performed “through intercession” after being declared blessed, as in this case.

(EFE)