TIMELINE OF THE PROCESS

In 1965, prior to the prohibition for further  excavation, the 5th Superior General, Rev. M. Maria Ignacia Magdalena, RVM and her Council, with the Local Superiors of the communities in Manila suburbs, filed a petition to the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines through His Eminence Rufino Cardinal Santos, for the elevation of the Cause to Rome.  The Church in the Philippines was then celebrating the 400th anniversary of the country’s Christianization.  Cardinal Santos acted on the petition.