Charles Deckers
Belgian missionary
Feast: 8 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The 19 martyrs of Algeria were a group of nineteen individuals slain in Algeria between 1994 and 1996 during the Algerian Civil War. They all were religious priests or religious sisters , including seven Trappist monks one was a bishop. Their nations of origin were France (15), French protectorate of Tunisia (1), Spain (2), and Belgium (1).
Summary of the Wikipedia article 19 martyrs of Algeria, which covers Charles Deckers with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - 19 martiri d'Algeria — White Father killed at Tizi Ouzou 27 December 1994; beatified at Oran 8 December 2018. Also santiebeati.it/dettaglio/97819.
- Wikidata Q47529369 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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