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Joseph Vithayathil
Indian Catholic priest, venerable
VenerableIndia
Born
23 July 1865
Vatican record
Died
8 June 1964
Vatican record
Venerable
14 December 2015
Vatican record
Canonised
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not yet
The Vatican record
- 14 December 2015 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2015)
Who they were
Joseph Vithayathil was a priest from India who has been declared as Venerable by the Catholic Church.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
No miracle approved yet
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q46992909 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Joseph Vithayathil (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.