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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).

Anne of St Bartholomew was born in Almendral (Avila─Spain) on October 10, 1549, living her adolescence by working in the fields; but even then she was graced by great gifts of the mystical order.

At the age of 21 in 1570, she entered the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the monastery of St. Joseph in Avila, becoming the first lay sister of the Teresian reform. St. Teresa of Avila admitted her to profession on August 15, 1572, and she soon became Teresa’s assistant and travelling companion; by order of St. Teresa she learned almost miraculously to write.

She had the consolation of assisting until the last Saint Teresa, who wanted to die in her arms, on October 4, 1582 in Alba de Tormes. She continued her life in the convents of Avila, Madrid (1591), Ocana (1595), in 1604 she went to France with Anne of Jesus and four other Carmelites, also to begin the reform of the Order there; in France she was elected prioress of Pontoise (1605) and Tours (1608).

In 1611 she returned to Paris, obtained permission to transfer to Flanders to place herself under the direction of the Discalced Carmelites friars, after a one-year break at Mons in Belgium, in 1612 she left to found a monastery in Antwerp, where she then resided for the last fourteen years of her life, surrounded by the esteem of the Archdukes and the people of Antwerp, her prayers freeing them from the secure occupation of heretics.

She died in this great Belgian city on 7^th of June 1626.

The beatification ceremony took place on May 6, 1917.

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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).

Alphonsus Mary of the Holy Spirit (Mazurek) was born on the first of March, 1891, in Baranówka, near Lubartów, Poland. In 1908 he entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Czerna, taking the name of Brother Alphonsus Mary of the Holy Spirit. After making his vows, he studied in Kraków, Linz and Vienna, where on 16^th of July 1916 he was ordained a priest. From 1920 to 1930 he worked in the minor seminary of the Discalced Carmelites in Wadowice as a teacher and educator of boys. From 1930 he held the position of Prior and Bursar of the Czerna monastery.

Attentive and delicate in the various community services and assiduous in the ministry of confessions, he encouraged everyone to a tender and solid devotion to Our Lady. His apostolic zeal and fidelity to the Lord were the fruit of continuous prayer and devotion to Jesus Crucified.

He remained faithful to his vocation during the years of Nazi persecution. He was captured and shot by the Nazis on August 28, 1944 in Nawojowa Góra, near Krzeszowice: he gave his soul to God while praying the rosary.

The decree on martyrdom was promulgated on March 26, 1999. The beatification ceremony took place in Warsaw on 13^th of June 1999.

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