TIMELINE OF THE PROCESS

2009

New Cases of Healing

Rev. Fr. Francesco Ricci, OP, the Postulator for the Cause, instructed M. Maria Evelyn Aguilar, RVM to submit new cases of healing attributed to the miraculous cure through the intercession of Venerable Ignacia.  He further advised her to gather testimonies of those healed with adequate clinical documentations as prescribed by the Congregation of the Causes for Saints. In Rome (cf. Circular #32 s. 2009)

On March 30, 2009, the General Council invited Fr. Francesco Ricci, OP, together with Fr. Enrico Emmanuel Ayo, to the Generalate.  In their meeting, Fr. Ricci gave them further instructions on the process of gathering medical records as indispensable documents to prove the veracity of a miraculous cure attributed to the Servant of God, Venerable Ignacia.  They were advised to pray and to offer more sacrifices for guidance toward the effective pursuit of the Cause.  Fr. Ricci also challenged the RVMs to believe that many miracles of healing, attributed through her intercession have already taken place around them.  The need to believe and continue to be steadfast in their prayer that the Holy Spirit may direct them to find the right person with complete and authentic clinical documentations and someone who is truly destined to be miraculously healed by God through Venerable Ignacia’s intercession.

Fr. Ricci also gave the General Council the information on the benefits attached to a Servant of God, whose Cause has been decreed to be published and included in the Acts of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, as follows:

The Sisters can invoke Venerable Ignacia in their prayers with an appropriate response of “PRAY FOR US,” instead of “INTERCEDE FOR US.”

Venerable Ignacia’s picture or statue can now be placed at the side altar of any chapel directly under the jurisdiction of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.

They can now light candles before Venerable Ignacia's picture or statue during her feastdays and triduum or novena prayers (cf. Circular #34 s. 2009).

Likewise, he advised M. Maria Evelyn Aguilar, RVM to inform Manila Archbishop, Gaudencio Cardinal B. Rosales, and ask him to help reconstitute the Archdiocesan Panel for the Cause of Venerable Ignacia.