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Mario Hiriart
Lay Religious, Engineer and Venerable
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Born
23 July 1931
Vatican record
Died
15 July 1964
Vatican record
Venerable
21 February 2020
Vatican record
Canonised
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not yet
The Vatican record
- 21 February 2020 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2020)
Who they were
Engineer; born in Santiago; died in Milwaukee.
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 Q9029136 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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.