Sebastián Gili Vives
The Vatican record
- 24 January 2024 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2024)
Who they were
Sebastián Gili Vives was a diocesan priest and founder of the Congregation of the Augustinian Daughters of Succour; he was born at Artà, Spain, on 16 January 1811 and died in Palma de Mallorca on 11 September 1894. Pope Francis recognised his heroic virtue on 24 January 2024.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Church recognised his heroic virtue in 2024.
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 - decrees published in 2024
- 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 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.