APOSTOLIC LETTER

We,
at the request of Our Brother
Péter Cardinal Erdő,
Metropolitan Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest,
and of many other Brothers in the Episcopate
and numerous faithful,
having consulted the Congregation for the Causes of Saints,
by Our Apostolic Authority
grant permission that
the Venerable Servant of God
Stephen Sándor,
professed lay member of the Society of St. Francis de Sales, martyr,
who was a shining example as educator and catechist of young people
through the pedagogy of kindness,
be henceforth called by the name Blessed,
and that his feast day
on the 8th of June,
the day of his birth into heaven,
may be celebrated every year
in the places and manner established by law.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

Given at Rome, at St. Peter’s,
on the 7th of October,
in the year of the Lord 2013,
the first of Our Pontificate.
Franciscus