General Lice Maria Signor on 24 June 1996 to send word to their respective orders of their intention to pursue a beatification cause for Marchetti. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the official "nihil obstat" edict (no objections to the cause) on 7 December 1999 and titled Marchetti as a Servant of God. The diocesan process was launched in the São Paulo archdiocese on 5 May 2000 and was later closed on 28 November 2001 before the C.C.S. validated the diocesan process on 21 February 2003. The postulation (the officials leading and coordinating the cause) submitted the Positio dossier to the C.C.S. in 2008 for assessment. It first went to six historians on 22 January 2008 with five out of six issuing their approval which enabled the cause to move forward. Six of eight theologians (those absent issued a written vote) met on 13 October 2015 but there was the unanimous conclusion that clarifications were needed before casting a definitive vote; these clarifications enabled for a unanimous agreement later on 21 January 2016. The cardinal and bishops of the C.C.S. also issued their assent to the cause on 8 July 2016. Marchetti became titled as Venerable on 8 July 2016 after Pope Francis issued a decree that acknowledged that Marchetti had practiced heroic virtue throughout his life. The current postulator for the cause (since October 1996) is the Scalabrinian priest Ennio Guglielmo Bellinato and the current vice-postulator is Sr. Leocadia Mezzomo from the Scalabrinian Sisters. The first vice-postulator that had been assigned to the cause (from 2 February 1997) was Sister Blandina Felippelli (also from the Scalabrinian Sisters) and the second had been Father Sisto Caccia (from 10 May 2002). References External links Hagiography Circle Geni 1869 births 1896 deaths 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests 19th-century venerated Christians Founders of Catholic religious communities Italian expatriates in Brazil Italian Roman Catholic missionaries Clergy from the Province of Lucca Roman Catholic missionaries in Brazil Scalabrinians Venerated Catholics by Pope Francis