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1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).

Chiara Maria of the Passion was born in Orsogna (Chieti - Italy) on 11 April 1610 to Filippo Colonna, Duke of Paliano, and Lucrezia Tomacelli. The name given to her in baptism was Giovanna Vittoria.

On January 7, 1623, she was entrusted to the Augustinian nuns of the monastery of St Joseph of the Ruffi, in Naples, and after three years, on October 21, 1626, she was overcome by grace with a complete and intimate conversion, illuminated by the first of her visions of Christ and corroborated the following year by her making a vow of virginity. God had shown her a vision of a monastery of Discalced Carmelites, making her understand that he wanted her among the daughters of St Teresa: her confessor, however, urged her to join the Augustinian nuns of the Ruffi, from whom she received the habit with the promise to make her profession.

Brought back to the family in Genazzano in 1627 and then to Rome, she resisted her father and Ludovico Guglielmo, prince of Paterno, who wanted to marry her. By chance, she came to know the convent of St Egidio in Trastevere, which she recognized as the small Teresian house shown to her in the vision. With the authorization of Pope Urban VIII, on October 4, 1628 she put on the Carmelite habit there, where, on October 4 of the following year, she made her profession of vows, taking the name of Chiara Maria of the Passion.

In 1643 she was elected prioress, an office in which she was again confirmed; in 1654 she was sent to found the new monastery of Regina Coeli, erected by her sister Anna Colonna-Barberini and, after three years as vicar, in 1657 she was elected prioress (which happened three more times). She guided the monastery with wisdom and prudence, maintaining in everything a rare balance, full of faith and charity.

She died on 22^nd of June 1675.

On August 22^nd, 1762, the decree on her heroic virtue was promulgated.

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1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).

Fr. Benignus of St Therese of the Child Jesus (Angelo Calvi), from the family and from the parish of the same name in Italy, had a strong and joyful education in the faith, founded on a great love for the Eucharist. At the age of 17, after thoughtful discernment, he felt called to the priesthood in the Teresian Carmel.

A novena to St. Therese of the Child Jesus allowed him to overcome insurmountable difficulties in resuming his studies. He became a convinced imitator of the Saint whose way of trusting abandonment in God, who is a Father, became characteristic of his life.

He spent the last months of his life in Concesa di Trezzo sull'Adda (MiIan) as deputy Master of novices. Here he was also asked to supply for the parish priest in the nearby parish, where his always smiling and limitless charity towards the sick, the poor, young people and families was a shining example.

He was only 28 when he died from a form of intestinal tumour. He offered his life for his religious Province which, due to a banking scam, ran the serious danger of being suppressed (eight monasteries, ten convents). A month after his death, everything turned out well.

The decree on his heroic virtue was promulgated on December 20, 2003.

1. The canonical norms concerning the procedure to be followed in the Causes of Saints are stated in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister promulgated by John Paul II on 25 January 1983 (AAS LXXV, 1983, 349-355).

2. To initiate a Cause it is necessary that at least five years pass after the death of the candidate. This is to allow for greater balance and objectivity in the evaluation of the case and to allow the emotions of the moment to decant. There must be a clear conviction among people about his/her sanctity (fama sanctitas) and about the efficacy of his/her intercession with the Lord (fama signorum).

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