A New Oblate Cause for Beatification and Canonization!

Originally Published on OMIWORLD.ORG Click here to see the article en Español Recently, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, the Archbishop of Poznań, Poland, has officially accepted the request of the Provincial of Poland, Father Paweł Zając OMI, to open a new Cause of Beatification and Canonization: that of the Oblate Scholastic Alfons Mańka (1917-1941) . The archbishop also set as the day and date of the first session of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Poznań: next November 27 in the Oblate parish church of Christ the King in the territory of the Provincial House of the Oblates in Poznań ( in Ostatnia street, 14). Thus, the Congregation and the Church have a new Servant of God: the scholastic Alfons Mańka. Thus, he became the fourth Polish Oblate in the process of beatification and canonization (after Venerable Antoni Kowalczyk, Blessed Joseph Cebula and the Servant of God Ludwik Wrodarczyk). In fact, during the process of beatification of Father José Cebula it was already considered to include the scholastic Mańka in the same Cause. However, with the need to make a quick decision, in the end it was decided to leave Father Cebula as the sole representative of the Oblates in that great common Cause of the 108 Polish martyrs during the Second [...]