page_title: Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa
section_title: Canonization
hierarchical_section_title: Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa / Canonization
caption_attribution_description: Ceremonia de Canonización de Monseñor Romero.
context_page_description: Saint Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa – in religious Nazaria of Saint Teresa of Jesus – was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Missionaries of the Crusade. Mesa immigrated from Spain to Mexico where she joined a religious order that saw her minister in Bolivia where she remained for most of her life. She served brief stints in Spain to spread the religious order she founded after she left her own order and relocated to Argentina where she later died.
  Her beatification cause commenced under Pope Paul VI on 6 September 1966 and she was titled as a Servant of God while Pope John Paul II later confirmed her heroic virtue and named her to be Venerable on 1 September 1988; he later beatified her on 27 September 1992 in Saint Peter's Square. Pope Francis confirmed a miracle attributed to her in 2018 and she was canonized on 14 October 2018.
context_section_description: The beatification cause opened in Buenos Aires in an informative process that Cardinal Antonio Caggiano opened on 6 September 1966 and later closed in a Mass celebrated on 3 December 1973. Mesa became titled as a Servant of God under Pope Paul VI after the cause was launched on 6 September 1966. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints later validated the diocesan process on 20 February 1987, in Rome and received the official Positio dossier from the postulation in 1987.
  Theologians provided their assent to the cause on 24 November 1987, as did the members of the C.C.S. on 12 April 1988. Pope John Paul II approved that Mesa had lived a life of heroic virtue and named her as Venerable on 1 September 1988. The miracle needed for beatification was investigated and then validated in Rome on 25 February 1989, while a medical board later met on 3 October 1991, and approved it. Theologians also assented to it on 20 December 1991, as did the C.C.S. on 21 January 1992. John Paul II approved that the healing was, indeed, a miracle on 7 March 1992, and beatified Mesa in Saint Peter's Square on 27 September 1992.
  Of course, Ignacia Nazaria March Mesa became a saint yesterday by Pope Francis.
  The process for the miracle needed for full sainthood took place in Cochabamba in Bolivia from 17 April 2015, until 20 July 2015. Medical experts who examined the healing deemed it to be a miracle thus approving it on 22 September 2017. The theologians assessed and approved the miracle in a meeting held on the following 26 October. The cardinal and bishop members of the C.C.S. confirmed this miracle also on 16 January 2018. Pope Francis confirmed the healing to be a legitimate miracle on 26 January 2018; her canonization was celebrated in Saint Peter's Square on 14 October 2018.
  The current postulator assigned to this cause is Sister Margarita Torrubia.
caption: Canonization Mass held in 2018.
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