Guy pierre de Fontgalland, Servant of God, was regarded in the inter-war period as the youngest potential Catholic saint who was not a martyr. His beatification process was opened on November 15, 1941, and suspended on November 18, 1947.
In July 1924, the family went on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. In front of the grotto, he had a confirmation of his earlier revelation that he would die soon, on a Saturday, the day of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
On the night of 7–8 December, he fell ill with diphtheria. There followed a period of crisis and remissions during which, knowing he would die despite the optimism of his doctors, he disclosed his "double secret" to his mother. He confronted the pain with courage and died of suffocation on Saturday, January 24, 1925, aged eleven.
At the inauguration of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, in October 1931, the Brazilian Episcopate and over five hundred priests requested the beatification of the child. They echo the 650,000 signatures already sent to Rome or Paris between 1926 and 1931.
The following year, on June 15, a diocesan tribunal was constituted by the Archbishop of Paris, to investigate the his cause. Up to March 1, 1934, 244 conversions, 698 religious vocations, 742 cures attested by physicians and approximately 85,000 other graces were documented and attributed to him.
There were by then 1,312,000 signatures of children and adults who asked the pope to accelerate the beatification of Guy.
In July 1924, the family went on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. In front of the grotto, he had a confirmation of his earlier revelation that he would die soon, on a Saturday, the day of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
On the night of 7–8 December, he fell ill with diphtheria. There followed a period of crisis and remissions during which, knowing he would die despite the optimism of his doctors, he disclosed his "double secret" to his mother. He confronted the pain with courage and died of suffocation on Saturday, January 24, 1925, aged eleven.
At the inauguration of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, in October 1931, the Brazilian Episcopate and over five hundred priests requested the beatification of the child. They echo the 650,000 signatures already sent to Rome or Paris between 1926 and 1931.
The following year, on June 15, a diocesan tribunal was constituted by the Archbishop of Paris, to investigate the his cause. Up to March 1, 1934, 244 conversions, 698 religious vocations, 742 cures attested by physicians and approximately 85,000 other graces were documented and attributed to him.
There were by then 1,312,000 signatures of children and adults who asked the pope to accelerate the beatification of Guy.
Guy pierre de Fontgalland, Servant of God, was regarded in the inter-war period as the youngest potential Catholic saint who was not a martyr. His beatification process was opened on November 15, 1941, and suspended on November 18, 1947.
In July 1924, the family went on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. In front of the grotto, he had a confirmation of his earlier revelation that he would die soon, on a Saturday, the day of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
On the night of 7–8 December, he fell ill with diphtheria. There followed a period of crisis and remissions during which, knowing he would die despite the optimism of his doctors, he disclosed his "double secret" to his mother. He confronted the pain with courage and died of suffocation on Saturday, January 24, 1925, aged eleven.
At the inauguration of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, in October 1931, the Brazilian Episcopate and over five hundred priests requested the beatification of the child. They echo the 650,000 signatures already sent to Rome or Paris between 1926 and 1931.
The following year, on June 15, a diocesan tribunal was constituted by the Archbishop of Paris, to investigate the his cause. Up to March 1, 1934, 244 conversions, 698 religious vocations, 742 cures attested by physicians and approximately 85,000 other graces were documented and attributed to him.
There were by then 1,312,000 signatures of children and adults who asked the pope to accelerate the beatification of Guy.
In July 1924, the family went on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. In front of the grotto, he had a confirmation of his earlier revelation that he would die soon, on a Saturday, the day of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
On the night of 7–8 December, he fell ill with diphtheria. There followed a period of crisis and remissions during which, knowing he would die despite the optimism of his doctors, he disclosed his "double secret" to his mother. He confronted the pain with courage and died of suffocation on Saturday, January 24, 1925, aged eleven.
At the inauguration of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, in October 1931, the Brazilian Episcopate and over five hundred priests requested the beatification of the child. They echo the 650,000 signatures already sent to Rome or Paris between 1926 and 1931.
The following year, on June 15, a diocesan tribunal was constituted by the Archbishop of Paris, to investigate the his cause. Up to March 1, 1934, 244 conversions, 698 religious vocations, 742 cures attested by physicians and approximately 85,000 other graces were documented and attributed to him.
There were by then 1,312,000 signatures of children and adults who asked the pope to accelerate the beatification of Guy.
