Saturday, April 30, 2011

3 FILIPINO BISHOPS BEING EVALUATED FOR BEATIFICATION

MANILA, Philippines - Ahead of Pope John Paul II's beatification at the Vatican on May 1, while Filipinos across the globe await the holy event with bated breath, many of them do not know that a cause for the beatification of a number of Filipino bishops is underway.

Bishop Alfredo Versoza of the Archdiocese of Lipa and his auxiliary bishop Alfredo Obviar of the Archdiocese of Lucena are both believed to have witnessed the Lipa apparitions in 1948.

Preliminary evidence seeking their beatification have been submitted to the Holy See, on the way to their possible sainthood.


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