Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Charles Brown will preside over a thanksgiving Mass in honor of Venerable Teofilo Camomot in Cebu province’s city of Carcar on July 27.
The Mass will be held at a chapel located inside the Daughters of St. Therese Mother House compound.
CBCP News said the decree of the heroic virtues of Archbishop Camomot will be read by Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma during the Mass, while Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Jose Cabantan will deliver the homily.
“Let us celebrate with sincere thanksgiving for the gift of our dear Teofilo Camomot being raised to the level of venerable,” Palma said in a press briefing in Cebu City on Wednesday.
“In our own way, may we as well become inspired to try to live the virtues that he lived,” he added.
The prelate asked everyone to continue to pray that time comes that Camomot would be beatified and eventually be canonized.
It was May 21, 2022 when Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtue of Archbishop Camomot in a decree.
According to the Archbishop Camomot Committee in Cebu, there have been testimonies of the archbishop’s ability to heal the sick and levitate in prayer.
A native of Carcar, he was ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Cebu in 1941 and was elevated to episcopacy in 1955.
His last assignment was as coadjutor archbishop of Cagayan de Oro where he served for 12 years.
He then returned to Cebu where he died in a car accident on Sept. 27, 1988 at the age of 74.