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In the Catholic Church, Venerable is the title used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading to beatification. The following is an incomplete list of people declared to be venerable. The list is in alphabetical order by Christian name but, if necessary, by surname or the ...
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John of St. Samson (1571–1636), also known as Jean du Moulin or Jean de Saint-Samson, was a French Carmelite friar and mystic of the Catholic Church. He is known as the soul of the Touraine Reform of the Carmelite Order, which stressed prayer, silence and solitude. John was blind from the age of three after contracting smallpox and receiving ...
Carla Ronci. Carla Ronci (11 April 1936 – 2 April 1970) was an Italian consecrated lay woman who was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II on 7 July 1997. [1] Born in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Ronci spent most of her life in Torre Pedrera [ it], one of the city's northern frazioni. Aged 14, she was drawn to the Ursuline Sisters of Verona ...
Will Venable. William Dion Venable (born October 29, 1982) is an American professional baseball coach and former player. He is the associate manager of the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB as an outfielder for the San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Dodgers, and he was a coach for the Chicago Cubs.
Company of Pastors. The Company of Pastors or Venerable Company [1] [page needed] ( French: Compagnie des pasteurs) is an organization, comparable to a classis, [2] of ministers and deacons of the Protestant Church of Geneva. [3] It was established as part of the implementation of John Calvin 's Ecclesiastical Ordinances in 1541 [2] [4] and ...
Madeleine Delbrêl. Madeleine Delbrêl (1904–1964) was a French Catholic author, poet, and mystic. She came to the Catholic faith after a youth spent as an atheist. Delbrêl died unexpectedly from a brain hemorrhage in 1964 and now has an open cause for canonization. Pope Francis declared her Venerable in 2018.
Francis Mary Paul Libermann (French: François-Marie-Paul Libermann; born Jacob Libermann; 12 April 1802 – 2 February 1852) was a French Jewish convert to Catholicism and a Spiritan priest. He is best known for founding the Society of the Holy Heart of Mary, which later merged with the Spiritans. He is often referred to as "The Second Founder ...