Tansi Michael Cyprian video documentary part 2

The fame of his sanctity, which already was spreading during his lifetime, increased after his death. From among the priests, religious and laity in Nigeria came a request for the introduction of his cause of beautification. In 1979, His Eminence Francis Cardinal Arinze, then Archbishop of Onitsha started the first preliminary step towards possible beatification. He made favorable contacts with the Bishop of Nottingham in England where the Servant of God died. The cause quickly gained a very wide acceptance including the blessing of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Nigeria. On 21st June 1985, in accordance with the new norms the Apostolic Constitution. “Divinus Perfectionis Magister” Archbishop Stephen Ezeanya, the Archbishop of Onitsha consigned to the Vatican the documents required to obtain the “nihil obstat” which was added a request to transfer the diocesan process from the diocese of Nottingham {place of death}, to the Archdiocese of Onitsha {place of birth}. The Vatican after due consultations bestowed a “nihil obstat” for the opening of the archdiocesan Informative process on the life and virtues of Fr. Tansi. The diocesan Informative process in the Cause of Fr. Tansi was opened at Onitsha on January 20th, 1986 by Archbishop STEPHEN Ezeanya. And concluded with a public session on May 5th 1990 at Onitsha. The acts and other documents of Onitsha Tribunal were handed over to the Chancellor of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes for Saints on May 21st 1990 by Archbishop Ezeanya himself, this marked the beginning of the Vatican process. After four and half years of serious and diligent study of the Onitsha Acts, on 11th July, 1995, a decree recognizing the heroic life and virtues of Fr. Tansi was issued in the Vatican process and four months after that another decree recognizing the miraculous cure attributed to the intercession of Fr. Tansi. With these two decrees in favour of the Cause, the road to Fr. Tansi beatification is opened. The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Nigeria made a request to the Holy Father to come to Nigeria to beatify Fr. Tansi has drawn the attention of the universal church to Nigeria. He was beatified March 22, 1998 at Oba Nigeria by John Paul 11. Proclaimed Patron of Nigerian Priests June 3, 2010.