The South African lay catechist and Samuel Benedict Daswa was killed by a crowd, because his Christian convictions opposed local spirit healers and witchcraft.Vatican City (kath.net/KAP) Pope Francis has officially recognized 20 Spanish civil war victims and a lay Catholic from South Africa as martyrs on Friday. The future South African Blessed is Tshimangadzo Samuel Benedict Daswa (1946-90) from Mbahe in the former Venda homeland. Working on behalf of the Diocese of Tzaneen as catechist (photo), he was killed by a mob because in his Christian convictions, he opposed local spirit healers and their witchcraft. Whith the Spaniards, there are three members of the community of Josefite Sisters and 17 Trappist monks who were murdered in 1936 out of hatred for the Catholic Faith.
Still not officially recognized by the Congregation as a martyr, is the Salvadoran Socialist, Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980) murdered while he was saying Mass. For him, the competent Theological Commission had confirmed the death was because of hatred of the faith according to information from the Vatican already. [How is that possible if they don't know who the assailants were?]
However, this vote must first be approved by the Cardinal of the Congregation. Overall, the Congregation of Saints published eleven decrees on Friday, with the approval of the Pope. For the Italian foundress Maria Teresa Casini (1864-1937), a miracle of healing was confirmed. There are no obstacles to her beatification. Seven other people have been recognized as having "heroic virtue." There is also the Ukrainian priest, Ladislav Bukowinski (1904-74), the US Founder Louis Schwartz, who died in 1992 at the age of 62 years in the Philippines, as well as the Japanese Elisabeth Maria Satoko Kitahara (1929-58).
Link to Kath.net... Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com AMDG
5 comments:
Tancred,
One really cannot reasonably expect either cogence or truth from Jorge Bergoglio or anyone
who supports him or his ideas.
Karl
In all due respect,if this isn't enough to convince the novus ordo to realize Vatican 2 needs to be trashed,nothing will.
It is not necessary to know who the assailants were to confirm that someone was killed in hatred of the faith. Examples: St. Stephen (first martyr), St. Thomas Becket, all of the martyrs approved by Pope Benedict (all of whom were either victims of WWII, Spanish Civil War, Polish Communism, or other similar conflicts).
You mean personal sanctity, actual reality, orthodoxy and things like that have no place in te modern canonization process? Probably.
Hopefully G'd willing I will have final perseverance like this brave man.Pray that his soul is on Heaven.
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