Enrique Shaw
Argentinian businessperson
The Vatican record
- 24 April 2021 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2021)
- 18 December 2025 — Miracle through their intercession approved (decree list, 2025)
Who they were
Enrique Ernesto Shaw was born in France on 26 February 1921; the family moved back to Argentina in 1923, and he went to the Colegio La Salle in Buenos Aires. He served in the Argentine navy, rising to junior lieutenant, then became a businessman, husband and father, running his company on the Church's social teaching. In 1952 he founded the Christian Association of Business Executives (ACDE).
He died on 27 August 1962, aged 41.
The miracles
a five-year-old boy — Argentina — June 2015
A boy suffered a very serious head injury when he was kicked by a horse, and was healed. The Vatican's medical board found the recovery scientifically inexplicable in January 2025, and its theologians unanimously attributed it to Shaw's intercession in June 2025.
The Pope has approved the miracle, so the way to beatification is open. We have not yet confirmed a date for the ceremony; until then the Church's title is Venerable.
Why that counted as sanctity
The case of a five-year-old boy was examined by the Church's doctors and theologians and approved as a miracle on 18 December 2025, opening the way to beatification.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - decree of 18 Dec 2025
- Catholic World Report / CNA, Dec 2025 - Pope Leo XIV approves miracle attributed to Enrique Shaw
- Vatican News, Dec 2025 - Argentinian layman to be beatified
- Wikipedia - Enrique Ernesto Shaw
- La Salle Worldwide - Enrique Shaw, former student of Colegio La Salle Buenos Aires, to be beatified
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q8776257 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Enrique Ernesto Shaw (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.