Beatification (from Latin beatus, "blessed" and facere, "to make") is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into...

veneration of the saint. For permission to venerate merely locally, only beatification is needed. For several centuries the bishops, or in some places only...

XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor. Normally five years must pass after a person's death before the beatification process can begin...

his beatification. On 29 April 2011, John Paul II's coffin was disinterred from the grotto beneath St. Peter's Basilica ahead of his beatification, as...

The Beatification of the Area Boy, a play by Wole Soyinka, was first published in Great Britain in 1995 and later in Nigeria in 1999. The play explores...

authorized the beatification of 1,541 people, including three equipollent beatifications. The pope has continued the practice of having beatifications celebrated...

clearing the way for his beatification. Sheen was scheduled to be beatified in Peoria on December 21, 2019, but his beatification was postponed after Bishop...

8 November 2017 and named him as Venerable. Francis presided over his beatification on 4 September 2022. Albino Luciani was born on 17 October 1912 in Forno...

Francis on 3 February 2015, paving the way for his beatification on 23 May 2015. During Romero's beatification, Pope Francis declared that his "ministry was...

against") was declared under Pope John Paul II which opened the cause for beatification. The diocesan process commenced on 11 May 1993 in Rome and thus, he...

the beatification process for his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. Normally, five years must pass after a person's death before the beatification process...

passing through the steps of a declaration of "heroic virtues" and beatification. After preparing a case, including the approval of miracles, the case...

to have witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917. Her beatification process was opened in 2017. Lúcia was the youngest child of António...

decree of heroism or martyrdom by the honored. That is followed by beatification, with the title of Blessed. After the confirmation of miracles resulting...

The process of beatification and canonization has undergone various reforms in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. For current practice, as well...

the 21st century, who have received recognition as Blessed (through beatification) or Saint (through canonization) from the Catholic Church. Christianity...

decree on 21 February 2020, leading to Acutis's beatification. Within a month of the decree, the beatification ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic...

the 20th century, who have received recognition as Blessed (through beatification) or Saint (through canonization) from the Catholic Church: Christianity...

A postulator is the person who guides a cause for beatification or canonization through the judicial processes required by the Catholic Church. The qualifications...

March 2016, which allowed the beatification to take place. The postulator of the cause suggested before the beatification that she would be beatified in...

She belonged to the convent Heilig Grab in Bamberg. Her cause for beatification has been opened in 1999. The daughter of Johann Georg Schonath, a miller...

"Historians Question the Beatification of Blessed Charles". Deutsche Welle. "Austria's Holy Uproar: Vatican beatification of World War I emperor triggers...

peoples during World War I and for his commitment to evangelization. His beatification cause opened in 2002 and he became titled as a Servant of God. Pope...

figure in the hospital that he worked at. Pope Benedict XVI approved his beatification and delegated Cardinal José Saraiva Martins to preside over it in Cuba...

Catholic has been declared a servant of God by a bishop and proposed for beatification by the pope, such a servant of God may next be declared venerable ("heroic...

Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG (1528 – 22 August 1572), led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason. He was...

August, the feast day of the Assumption of Mary. The cause for Kolbe's beatification was opened at a local level on 3 June 1952. On 12 May 1955 Kolbe was...

11 of them being canonized. For some 2,000 additional martyrs, the beatification process is underway During the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries...

decree of heroism or martyrdom by the honored. That is followed by beatification, with the title of Blessed. After the confirmation of miracles resulting...

Ramon Strauch i Vidal, O.F.M. (7 October 1760 – 16 April 1823), was a Roman Catholic Spanish bishop who served as the Bishop of Vic. He was killed in 1823...