João Batista Scalabrini será santo

Abstract

In mid-May 2022, Pope Francis announced that the Bishop of Piacenza, John Baptist Scalabrini, beatified on November 9, 1997, by then Pope John Paul II, will be recognized by the Church as a saint. J. B. Scalabrini was born in Fino Mornasco, on July 8, 1839; and died in Piacenza on June 1, 1905. Perhaps due to the intense sanctity of his life and work, the pontiff even dispensed with the need for a new miracle, thus speeding up the ceremonies of sanctification. In this text, we try to answer a question that probably crossed the minds of many people. Why did the process of canonization of J. B. Scalabrini, called “father and apostle of migrants”, gain a faster pace? Three looks are necessary.