Mario Vergara
Italian presbyter
Feast: 25 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Mario Vergara (16 November 1910 – 24 May 1950) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions who was killed in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1950. He was beatified in 2014 after the recognition of his martyrdom.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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The cause
Mario Vergara has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: PIME: Blessed Mario Vergara.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - Mario Vergara e Isidoro Ngei Ko Lat — "Mario Vergara (1910-1950), sacerdote del Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere... martiri", killed at Shadaw, Burma, 24 May 1950; memorial 25 May; martyrdom decree 9 December 2013.
- Wikidata Q3849228 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Mario Vergara (CC BY-SA)
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