THE VATICAN/ZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - The postulator Rev. Bozidar Nagyhas said that the State Secretariat of the Vatican on Saturday morninggave him an official document confirming the beatification of IvanMerz.
THE VATICAN/ZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - The postulator Rev. Bozidar
Nagy has said that the State Secretariat of the Vatican on Saturday morning
gave him an official document confirming the beatification of Ivan Merz. Nagy said on Sunday that this document, which completes the beatification
process of laic Ivan Merz, was handed over in the last hours of Pope John Paul
II's pontificate.
The document, signed by the Holy See's State Secretary, Cardinal Angelo
Sodano, bears the pope's seal.
Pope John Paul II beatified Ivan Merz during his visit to Banja Luka,
Merz's home town in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina, on 22 June 2003.