Overview
- Pope León XIV publicly cited Enrique Shaw at the Universidad Católica Argentina on Monday, raising attention to a Vatican decree that cleared a key step toward beatification.
- The Holy See approved a decree on December 18, 2025 that officially recognized a miracle attributed to Shaw and moved his cause from ‘venerable’ to the beatification stage.
- The miracle cited by Vatican investigators was the unexpected recovery of a five-year-old who suffered severe cranial trauma in Suipacha on June 21, 2015 and whose improvement doctors judged medically inexplicable.
- Shaw, born in 1921, was a navy officer turned businessman who founded ACDE, promoted family wages and job stability, and became famous when hundreds of workers donated blood during his 1962 illness.
- The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints must now set a beatification date and a second verified miracle is normally required for canonization, a development that will raise the profile of Catholic social teaching in Argentine business circles.