Vatican City, Mar 18, 2021 / 05:00 pm (CNA).- The sainthood cause of a Swiss priest whose “supernatural conceptions” made an impression on St. Maximilian Kolbe has advanced, along with those of six other Servants of God.

Franciscan Conventual Friar Léon Veuthey was a professor of ascetical and mystical theology in Rome when he first met St. Maximilian Kolbe in 1933 -- after which Kolbe described Veuthey in his private journal as “a supernatural man,” according to the Swiss priest’s biographer.