Parents to be saints

This morning at 10:00am, in the Consistory Hall at the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father participated in the Liturgical prayer of Terce (mid-morning Prayer).

During that liturgy, Pope Francis held an Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of certain Blesseds, and decreed that

• Blessed Vincenzo Grossi, a diocesan priest who founded the Institute of the Brothers of the Oratory;
• Maria of the Immaculate Conception, a Religious Sister and General Superior of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross; and
• Louis Martin, a layman and father, along with his wife Maria Azelia Guérin, who were the parents of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus (Thérèse of Lisieux)

will have their names inscribed in the book of Saints during a Canonization ceremony which will take place on Sunday, October 18, 2015.