{"id":741,"date":"2025-10-27T08:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewtnromania.com\/2025\/10\/27\/pope-leo-xiv-approves-decrees-for-11-martyrs-killed-by-nazi-germany-communists\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:54:29","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-approves-decrees-for-11-martyrs-killed-by-nazi-germany-communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/2025\/10\/27\/pope-leo-xiv-approves-decrees-for-11-martyrs-killed-by-nazi-germany-communists\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV approves decrees for 11 martyrs killed by Nazi Germany, communists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q: What significant approvals did Pope Leo XIV make?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV approved decrees recognizing 11 new martyrs and declared four new individuals as venerables.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Who are the 11 new martyrs recognized by the Church?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The martyrs include nine Polish Salesian priests and two diocesan priests from former Czechoslovakia, killed under Nazi or communist regimes.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Where were the Polish martyrs killed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The Polish priests were killed in concentration camps in Auschwitz, Poland, and Dachau, Germany, between 1941 and 1942.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Why were these individuals recognized as martyrs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: They were killed &#8220;in hatred of the faith&#8221; for being Catholic clergy under Nazi Germany and communist rule.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Who are the four new venerables?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The new venerables are Jos\u00e9 Merino Andr\u00e9s, Gioacchino della Regina della Pace, Maria Evangelista Quintero Malfaz, and Angelo Angioni, recognized for their heroic virtues.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What is the next step for the recognized martyrs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The Pope&#8217;s declaration clears the way for them to be declared &#8220;blessed&#8221; through beatification, though a date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n\nThis is a summary of the article from https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-xiv-approves-decrees-for-11-martyrs-killed-by-nazi-germany-communists. Visit this link to view more.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-xiv-approves-decrees-for-11-martyrs-killed-by-nazi-germany-communists","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What significant approvals did Pope Leo XIV make? A: Pope Leo XIV approved decrees recognizing 11 new martyrs and declared four new individuals as venerables. Q: Who are the 11 new martyrs recognized by the Church? A: The martyrs include nine Polish Salesian priests and two diocesan priests from former Czechoslovakia, killed under Nazi [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}