Francesco Maria della Croce
The Vatican record
- 19 June 2020 — Miracle through their intercession approved (decree list, 2020)
Who they were
Johann Baptist Jordan was born in Gurtweil, in Baden, Germany, on 16 June 1848. A gifted linguist, he became a priest and in Rome in 1881 founded the Society of the Divine Saviour, the Salvatorians, taking the name Francis Mary of the Cross; the Salvatorian sisters followed.
He died in Switzerland on 8 September 1918.
The miracles
an unborn girl and her parents, lay Salvatorians — Brazil — 2014
In the 23rd week of pregnancy the baby was diagnosed with a severe form of skeletal dysplasia. Her parents asked Fr Jordan's intercession for a healthy birth. She was born completely healthy on 8 September 2014, the feast of the Birth of Mary and the anniversary of his death.
He was beatified in Rome. One more approved miracle is needed for canonisation.
Why that counted as sanctity
The case of an unborn girl and her parents, lay Salvatorians was examined by the Church's doctors and theologians and approved as a miracle on 19 June 2020, opening the way to beatification. Beatification followed on 15 May 2021 by Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, for Pope Francis.
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 - decree of 19 Jun 2020
- Catholic World Report / CNA, May 2021 - polyglot priest beatified after miraculous healing of unborn baby
- Wikipedia - Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.