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3 unusual facts about Beatification


Hôpital Saint Joseph des Soeurs de la Croix

The Blessed Père Jacques founded the hospital in 1952 after he had founded the Congrégation des Soeurs Franciscaines de la Croix du Liban which played a major role in helping victims of World War I in Lebanon.

Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George

On January the 24th, the day before the Blessed Beatification of the Venerable Servant of God Maria Cristina of Savoy, the Dukes of Castro and of Noto signed an "Act of Reconciliation" at 5.30 in the evening at Naples' Excelsior Hotel.

Symphorian and Timotheus

His mother, the Blessed Augusta (?), encouraged him on his way to execution, 22 August 178, and was present at her son's death.


498 Spanish Martyrs

Cardinal José Saraiva Martins who gave the sermon during the beatification ceremonies, stated that these Martyrs all loved Christ and the Church more than their own life.

Alicja Kotowska

Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska (Born November 20, 1899 in Warsaw – died November 11, 1939 near Piaśnica Wielka) was a Polish nun, head of the Resurrectionist convent in Wejherowo between 1934 and 1939, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church and a martyr killed by the German Nazis in 1939 in the Mass murders in Piaśnica.

Antoni Serra Serra

He was in the Convent of Saint Francis of Pauoa of Palma and was a Reader of philosophy and theology, Visitor, Mallorca's Order of Minims General and Provincial Vicar Inquisition Qualifier; Postulator in 1739 of the cause of beatification of Catherine Thomas.

Archbishop Stepinac High School

It was founded in 1948 and named for Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, who was archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia) at the time and unfairly convicted by communists as Nazi collaborator.

Attendorn

Maria Angela from the Holiest Heart of Jesus, Mötz Convent, Tyrol, born in Rölleken near Attendorn, died 1944 at Auschwitz, resistance to the Hitler régime, 1990 beatification process begun by the Archdiocese of Vienna.

Blessed John of Moscow the Fool-For-Christ

Born on the outskirts of Vologda in Russia, Blessed John of Moscow the Fool for Christ, Wonderworker of Moscow, spent his youth as a labourer in a local saltworks and as a water-carrier.

Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus

The Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine, O.S.A., who was among the first volunteers to go to Quebec, was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1989.

Cesare Fracassini

One of his most important pictures is The Martyrs of Gorinchum, painted for a beatification ceremony in the Vatican.

Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel

The Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel (CSMA), in Latin Congregatio Sancti Michaëlis Archangeli and also known as the Michaelite Fathers, is a religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church founded in 1897 by the Blessed Father Bronisław Markiewicz, a Polish priest from Miejsce Piastowe, Poland.

Edward Kessler

He has expressed opposition about any imminent beatification/canonisation of Pope Pius XII.

Edward Sorin

He was influenced by circumstances to enroll himself in the Congregation of Holy Cross, a community of priests, brothers, and sisters lately founded at Le Mans by the Blessed Basil Moreau.

Faà di Bruno

The Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825–1888), brother of Emilio, was a mathematician and priest.

Fidel Villarroel

He is also known as the most-prolific saint-maker in the Philippines for his Positio Super Introductione Causae, or historical research, that he made for the beatification and canonization of Lorenzo Ruiz and fifteen other companion-martyrs.

He also authored the Positio Super Introductione Causae or cause of beatification leading to the canonization of San Lorenzo Ruiz and his companion martyrs.

Guillén de Castro y Bellvis

He probably made the acquaintance of Lope de Vega at the festivals (1620-1622) held to commemorate the beatification and canonization of St Isidore, the patron saint of Madrid.

Hugh of Saint-Cher

In 1247, upon instructions of Pope Innocent, Hugh revised the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert, which the Saint Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, had given the first Carmelite friars on Mount Carmel.

Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez

In 17 December 1982 her Beatification cause was formally opened by Pope John Paul II; thereby, bestowing upon her the title of "Servant of God ISABEL LARRAÑAGA RAMÍREZ, ("ISABEL OF THE HEART OF JESUS")".

Johannes Bündgens

In 2002 he was appointed as priest for several parishes in Heimbach (Eifel), he also worked in the diocese for the beatification of Heinrich Hahn.

John I. Jenkins

Jenkins has led Notre Dame delegations during his presidency to the Vatican to meet with Church officials, including a brief visit with Pope Benedict XVI; to France to celebrate the beatification of Blessed Basil Moreau, C.S.C., founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, the University’s founding religious community; and to Jerusalem to mark the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the University’s Ecumenical Institute.

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza

The rite of beatification was presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, by mandate of Pope Benedict XVI.

Krašić

Krašić is the birthplace of the late Croatian Cardinal Blessed Aloysius Stepinac.

Louis Brisson

Blessed Louis Brisson (23 June 1817 – 2 February 1908) was a Roman Catholic priest who founded the congregations of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales and the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.

Maria Adeodata Pisani

Pope John Paul II declared her a Blessed on 9 May 2001 at Floriana, Malta, soon followed by the unveiling of a huge portrait of the Blessed — a replica of an original oil painting commissioned in 1898 by Pietro Pace, the Archbishop of Rhodes and Bishop of Malta.

Maria Teresa of St. Joseph

In December 2005, Pope Benedict XVI approved the miracle necessary for her beatification.

Narcisa de Jesús

Narcisa then moved to the city of Cuenca where she went from home to home, living with whoever would take her including the Blessed Mercedes de Jesús Molina to allow herself greater privacy for prayer and penance.

Nikolaus Gross

Nikolaus Gross (German:Groß) (30 September 1898 – 23 January 1945) was a German resistance fighter and labor union leader in the time of the Third Reich who was later beatified by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on 7 October 2001.

Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem

P.A.P.S. organizes guided tours for groups of pilgrims inside the Vatican City and around Christian Rome, especially to the Vatican Museums, Vatican Gardens, Catacombs of Rome and Papal basilicas, Liturgical Celebrations and Audiences with the Pope, and organizes Congresses (on demand), Holy Masses, prayer gatherings and services with full assistance during Beatifications and Canonizations.

Pereswetoff-Morath

Varyingly traced to the Blessed Alexander Peresvět of Radonež (died 1380) and to a certain Vasilej Peresvět Ivanov in early-15th-century Dmitrov (NW of Moscow), the family, in the person of Murat Aleksěevič Peresvětov (died 1640) from Rostov Velikij, entered Swedish service in 1613-14 during the Ingrian War.

Sisters of Saint Anne

The Sisters of St. Anne are a Roman Catholic religious institute, founded in 1850 in Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada, by the Blessed Marie Anne Blondin, S.S.A., to promote the education of the rural children of the Province of Canada.

Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Thus he established three of these volunteers as a religious congregation under the leadership of a Bavarian woman, Sister Anna Katharina Berger, who had come to Paris already a member of a community of Franciscan Sisters founded by the Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini in Pirmasens.

St. John Neumann, Bryn Mawr

During the year prior to the parish’s erection, Pope Paul VI beatified Neumann and thus permitted public veneration of him.

Stanislaus Papczyński

Blessed Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński (born John Papka, May 18, 1631 in Podegrodzie, Poland; died September 17, 1701 in Góra Kalwaria, Poland), a priest of the Roman Catholic church, a member of the Piarist Order, the founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers; beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 2007.

Yazlovets

After the beatification of Marcelina Darowska by the Pope John Paul II in 1996, the chapel of the Sisters in Yazlovets was proclaimed a Sanctuary of the Blessed Marcelina Darowska on September 1, 1999 by the Latin Rite Metropolitan of Lviv Cardinal Marian Jaworski.


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