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Mario Vergara
Italian presbyter
BlessedItaly
Feast: 25 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1910
Died
1950
Beatified
24 May 2014
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Who they were
Mario Vergara (16 November 1910 – 24 May 1950) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions who was killed in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1950. He was beatified in 2014 after the recognition of his martyrdom.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Wikidata Q3849228 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Mario Vergara (CC BY-SA)
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