{"id":21977,"date":"2020-01-17T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/servo-di-dio-fra-didak-kelemen-sacerdote-ofmconv-1683-1744\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:52:47","slug":"servo-di-dio-fra-didak-kelemen-sacerdote-ofmconv-1683-1744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/servo-di-dio-fra-didak-kelemen-sacerdote-ofmconv-1683-1744\/","title":{"rendered":"Servant of God Friar Didak KELEMEN, OFM Conv., Priest (1683-1744)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Servant of God Didak KELEMEN was a popular and renowned preacher and a former Minister Provincial of the Province of Hungary. He was born in Mereni, Covasna County, Romania. He and died in Miskolc, Hungary in 1744.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Immediately after his death, Friar Didak\u2019s fame of holiness of spread throughout Hungary. This was noted in the \u201cVita Servi Dei\u201d written in the same year of his death by one of his disciples. Moreover, Friar Didak\u2019s fame soon spread throughout the Order, a fact supported by various documents written in the second half of the 18th century.
\nDuring 1774-1776, the Bishop of Eger, Hungary, instructed a \u201csuper non cultu\u201d process. However, this process was never completed simply because the bishop had neglected to give his ruling on the matter. Then, in 1794, the Bishop of Alba Iulia, Romania instructed a \u201csuper fame virtutum et miraculorum\u201d process, which was completed after the testimony of a single witness and the acquisition of some documents on the life and virtues of the Servant of God from the episcopal curia in Eger. Not even this process, however, could be transmitted to Rome due to the political difficulties of the time.
\nIn 1927, a new biography on Friar Didak aroused fresh interest in his cause among the friars and superiors of the Order in Hungary. In 1938, his cause gained additional support when the Office of General Postulation received a certified copy of the documents of the previous processes.
\nIn 1975, in Rome, Friar Raymond R\u00c1KOS published an extensive biography of the Servant of God and many of his letters. Two years later, His Eminence, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Cardinal L\u00c9KAI, Primate of Hungary, presented a letter to Pope Paul VI, signed by all the bishops of Hungary, in which he urged the resumption of the cause. This was made possible in 1978, when the then Postulator General, Friar Donald KOS, presented a summary of the process of Eger to the Vatican Congregation.
\nIn 1979-1980, we proceeded to the recognition of the mortal remains of the Servant of God and his fitting reburial in our church in Miskolc. The following year, the then Postulator General, Friar Ambrogio SANNA, presented the \u201cPositio super scriptis\u201d to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which was followed by a decree of approval.
\nAfter the promulgation of the new regulations on the Causes of Canonization, in 1984, the Bishop of Eger instructed a \u201csuper continuatione famae sanctitatis Servi Dei\u201d process; while in the meantime, Friar Ernesto PIACENTINI collected new documents in Hungary. The documents were later kept at the Postulation in the Capitular archive of Alba Julia.
\nIn 2018, the cause was resumed and the current Postulator General, Friar Damian P\u0102TRA\u015eCU, has been working on the Positio, together with an external collaborator, Doctor Maurizio CANCELLI.<\/p>\n

Friar Damian-Gheorghe P\u0102TRA\u015eCU<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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