Benigna Victima de Jesus
Brazilian Venerable
The Vatican record
- 18 February 2022 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2022)
Who they were
Maria da Conceição Santos, CIANSP (religious name: Benigna Victim of Jesus; 16 August 1907 — 16 October 1981) was an Afro-Brazilian religious sister of the Congregation of Auxiliaries of Our Lady of Piety.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
Benigna Victima de Jesus has been declared Venerable; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Friends of Sister Benigna: the cause of Benigna Vitima de Jesus.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q9654347 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Benigna Victim of Jesus (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.