Calvinist Outreach, Part I (and Probably the Last Part)

Sondrio, Italy


 From the Catholic World News:

"Father Nicolò Rusca (1563-1618), a priest who was tortured and killed at the instigation of Calvinists, was beatified on April 21 in Sondrio, the northern Italian city of 20,000 where he served for decades as a parish priest.
Cardinal Angelo Amato, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided at the beatification Mass. "

So who decides what constitutes a miracle? It's the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Investigating miracles is a two step process: first, the diocese and the bishop gather as much information as possible. If appropriate, the information gets sent to the Congregation.

From Wikipedia:

 The miracle may go beyond the possibilities of nature either in the substance of the fact or in the subject, or only in the way it occurs. So three degrees of miracle are to be distinguished. The first degree is represented by resurrection from the dead (quoad substantiam). The second concerns the subject (quoad subiectum): the sickness of a person is judged incurable, in its course it can even have destroyed bones or vital organs; in this case not only is complete recovery noticed, but even wholesale reconstitution of the organs (restitutio in integrum). There is then a third degree (quoad modum): recovery from an illness, that treatment could only have achieved after a long period, happens instantaneously.

Cardinal Angelo Amato