Scalabrini soon saint

Giovanni Battista Scalabrini will be proclaimed a saint!
This happy announcement reached us at the end of May, in the midst of the Scalabrinian Year that we are celebrating in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the beatification of G.B. Scalabrini, which took place on November 9, 1997:
“It is with great joy that we communicate to you the news that the Holy Father, accepting the opinion of the cardinals gathered in assembly on May 17, has decreed that Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini will be venerated as a saint in the Church. […] We know how much migrants, refugees, seafarers, and all people involved in human mobility are dear to the Holy Father. Many times he has pointed out to the Church and society the duty to welcome them, protect them, promote their living conditions, and value their contribution to common coexistence. In proclaiming Giovanni Battista Scalabrini a saint, Pope Francis wishes to present to the Church the model of a bishop who not only gave himself completely to the good of his people, but also opened his heart to the sisters and brothers whom life had taken far from home.
In thanking the Holy Father for this gift and rejoicing that our Founder and Inspirer is recognized as a model to imitate, we feel even more responsible for keeping alive the charism he passed on to us and for dedicating ourselves to the service of fraternity, where people are not driven out by violence and war, are not discarded because they are redundant to the system, but
appreciated and valued in their uniqueness and diversity. Every community is invited to communicate to migrants that in Scalabrini they have a father and patron to turn to in difficulties so that he may implore the protection of God, who turns his gaze of predilection on the little ones and the marginalized […]”.
This is how, in a letter sent to the entire Scalabrinian Family, the Superior General of the Scalabrinian Missionaries and the Superior General of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters (the two Congregations founded by G.B. Scalabrini in the 19th century) and the General Leader of our Institute of Secular Scalabrinian Missionaries, Regina Widmann, expressed themselves.
Scalabrini is the Inspirer of our Secular Institute, begun in 1961, 56 years after the death of the Blessed Bishop of Piacenza. In this issue of “On the Roads of the Exodus,” in addition to continuing with insights and testimonies connected to the Scalabrinian Year, we wish to share with you, with the many friends who accompany our journey, the joy for the canonization of G.B. Scalabrini, whose life thus becomes a living message of faith, hope, and charity for the whole universal Church, at a time when migrations are taking on increasingly complex and dramatic features.