During the audience granted to His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff approved the votes in favour of the Ordinary Session of Cardinals and Bishops, Members of the Dicastery, and decided to extend to the universal Church the cult of Blessed Teresa di Sant’Agostino (née Maria Maddalena Claudia Lidoine) and fifteen companions of the Order of Descalced Carmelites of Compiègne, martyrs, killed in odium fidei on 17 July 1794 in Paris, France, inscribing them in the Book of Saints (equipollent canonization).
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