AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First stage of Bishop’s beatification process expected to take two years

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Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – A member of the Ecclesiastical Court of the diocese of La Rioja (Argentina), Rev. Roberto Queirolo, expects the first stage for research and collection of material concerning Bishop Enrique Angelelli, murdered in 1976, will be completed within two years. Once ended the process of research on the Bishop ‘s life and work, which started this week, the material will be forwarded for examination to the Congregation for the Causes for Saints in the Vatican in view of a decision to proclaim him Blessed and Martyr.
According to a report sent to Fides from a local source, Rev Queirolo thinks it will be two years before the case is forwarded to the Holy See because this is how it went regarding the case of two priests from Chamical, Carlos de Dios Murias and Gabriel Longueville. Father Queirolo writes that after the murder, in 1976, of Fr Longueville and Fr Murias and layman Wenceslao Pedernera, within days of another, "the diocesan priests urged Bishop Angelelli to protect himself but he decided to stay with his people, not to leave his flock unattended ".
Not long ago the Catholic community in Argentina marked the anniversary of the Bishop’s violent death of (see Fides 5/08/2015), killed by the military dictatorship. Mgr. Enrique Angelelli was born in Cordoba 17 July 1923 and ordained in Italy. In 1961 Pope John XXIII appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Cordoba, where he ministered in close contact with workers, peasants and the marginalised. In 1968 Pope Paul VI appointed him Bishop of La Rioja, where he worked to spread and to implement the principles enunciated by the Second Vatican Council, while continuing his service of the poorest of the poor. His murder, 4 August 1976, was covered up as a road accident. In 2014 the responsibility of members of the army was acknowledged, and the military found guilty were given a life sentence. Bishop Angelelli was one of the few priests who openly opposed the military dictatorship.
(CE) (Agenzia Fides, 26/10/2015)