TIMELINE OF THE PROCESS

With joy, M. Maria Evelyn Aguilar, RVM received on 24 December 2007 the official document, Decretum Super Virtutibus (Decree on Virtues), acknowledging the theological and cardinal virtues lived by Mother Ignacia to a heroic degree.  The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, after being duly informed by the Sacred Congregation of the Causes of Saints, has accepted and ratified the report on 6 July 2007 and ordered that the Decree on Virtues be published and included in the Acts of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (cf. Circular #24 s. 2008). The Decree declared that “…the servant of God, Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary , is found to possess to a heroic degree the theological virtues of  Faith,  Hope,  and  Charity  toward  God  and  neighbor, as well as the cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude.”