In June the Congregation for the Causes of Saints recognized the martyrdom received during the Spanish civil war in hatred of the faith by the Servants of God Pilar Gullón Yturriaga and 2 lay companions. Furthermore he proclaimed 7 new Venerable Servants of God, including Don Enzo Boschetti, and PIME's brother, Felice Tantardini

The three Spanish martyrs - explains VaticanNews - were killed in Pola de Somiedo, Spain, on 28 October 1936, during the Spanish civil war. They were three nurses from the Red Cross of Astorga, they were also part of the Catholic Action. They remained to treat the wounded at the Somiedo hospital while they could have fled when the republican militiamen arrived. They were offered freedom if they renounced their faith. When they refused, they were raped during the night and, in the morning, shot by some militiamen. Pilar was 25 years old, Octavia was 41 and Olga, the youngest, was 23. 

Also in June, the heroic virtues of 7 new Venerable Servants of God were recognized. Among them Augustine Tolton, diocesan priest, who lived in the United States of America between 1854 and 1897. African American, born into slavery in Missouri, he escaped with the family during the American Civil War and then went to study in Rome to become a priest. He served in Quincy and then in Chicago where he promoted the construction of the parish of Santa Monica, a point of reference for African Americans.

Five Italians: two women and three men. Enzo Boschetti, diocesan priest, lived in Italy between 1929 and 1993. A life spent helping young people overcome drug addiction, even going out to look for them at night to get them off the streets. In Pavia, where especially heroin was spreading in 1968, he launched the "Youth House" in a basement which today is also involved in combating gambling addictions. A complex structure, which today has ten communitiesà, a listening center and four day centers, where abused mothers and children are also welcomed. Felice Tantardini, Brother of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, born in Introbio in 1898 and died in Taunggy in Myanmar in 1991, was known as the "blacksmith of God" for the works built in the missions of the Asian country where he spent his life . He built churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages. 

Then there is Giovanni Nadiani, lay lay brother of the Congregation of Priests of the Blessed Sacrament, who lived between 1885 and 1940, a man of strong spiritual asceticism. And again, Maria Paola Muzzeddu, Founder of the Companyà of the Daughters of the Most Pure Mother, who lived in Aggius, Sardinia, from 1913 to 1971, known for her "Spiritual Diary" where her fight against the devil is told, and Maria Santina Collani, professed nun of the Institute of the Merciful Sisters, born in 1914 and died in 1956, dedicated to the poor and marginalized. Among the new Venerable Servants of God also Rosaria della Visitazione, Founder of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Rosary, born in Molo in the Philippines in 1884 and died there in 1957.