The Cause of Venerable Nano Nagle: Towards Beatification
A report from Sr Anne Lyons, Postulator for the Presentation Congregation
I left Rome with a strong exhortation from members of the Dicastery for the Cause of Saints to get working on the miracle. I sense an ‘urgency’ about the Cause of Venerable Nano and while I am already Professor Crisculo-Dicastery for the actively seizing any opportunity Cause of Saints that comes my way to promote her cause for Beatification, I appeal to each of you to reignite, to fan into a flame once again the passion, zeal, energy, devotion, belief and confidence in the fact that God has chosen Nano Nagle as a profound witness to a life of heroic holiness and to living out the Gospel.
Cause of Venerable Nano Nagle:
La causa per Nano Nagle è addormentata – The cause of Nano Nagle is asleep. When Pope Francis officially declared Nano Nagle Venerable in 2013, that completed that stage of the process. In this act, her life of heroic virtue was publicly declared to the entire Church worldwide. The next phase now in her process is to work and pray for her Beatification.
Towards Beatification:
Evidence and the approval of a miracle through the intercessory power of Venerable Nano Nagle. What can we do to further this stage?
- Continue the great work that you are already doing to promote devotion to her.
- Continue to hold her up as a model of a woman who dared to give all and risk her life for God’s world.
- Continue the ministry of Prayer through the intercession of Nano Nagle. I noted when studying while individual prayer to Nano is a right and good thing to do, the power of the group praying and interceding solely through the intercession of Nano is deemed very important.
- Continue to intercede with the Lord that if it is His desire and will for His Glory, Nano Nagle may be His instrument of healing grace and grant us the required miracle that will move forward the Cause of her Beatification and eventually Canonisation.
- Continue to carefully RECORD any campaign of prayer through Nano’s intercession. Such records are vital and invaluable towards any future investigation of an ‘alleged miracle’.
- Continue to record any FAVOURS that you learn of which are attributed solely through Nano Nagle’s intercession. Every little piece of information is significant.