Marcantonio Durando

Marcantonio Durando, CM (22 May 1801 – December 1880) was an Italian Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Mission. He founded the Daughters of the Passion of Jesus the Nazorean, or Nazarene Sisters, with the assistance of Luigia Borgiotti.

Durando was made a Servant of God on 23 March 1941 under Pope Pius XII and Pope John Paul II both declared him as Venerable on 1 July 2000 and beatified him on 20 October 2002.

Life Marcantonio Durando was born in 1801 in Mondovì as one of ten children to Angela Vinaj (d. 1822); two siblings died as infants. Tancredi Falletti and his wife Juliette Colbert were the founders and heads of those two orders branched for the two genders. Fossati also inaugurated the beginning of an apostolic process that started in 1940 and concluded not long after. The formal introduction to the cause came on 23 March 1941 under Pope Pius XII, granting Durando the title of Servant of God.

The official Positio then was submitted to Rome at which point theologians voiced a favorable response to the dossier on 12 January 1971 while a historical commission met and approved the cause on 21 September 1978. The members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints voiced their approval as well on 27 March 1979 though met for a second time to discuss the cause further on 20 June 2000. Durano became titled as Venerable – on 1 July 2000 – after Pope John Paul II confirmed the fact that the late priest had in fact lived a life of heroic virtue.

The process for a miracle opened in Turin in 1936 and concluded not long after in which all interrogatories and medical documentation was collected. The C.C.S. validated this process decades later on 13 January 1995 while a medical board approved the healing to be a miracle on 19 February 2001. Theologians followed this verdict on 12 October 2001 while the members of the C.C.S. did so as well on 20 November 2001. The pope approved the miracle on 20 December 2001.

John Paul II beatified Durando on 20 October 2002. The miracle in question involved the cure of Mrs. Stella Ingiani who grew ill and later was comatose after the 28 November 1932 birth of her daughter in her home. Durando's order begged for their founder's intercession and Ingiani awoke from her coma to a rapid cure.