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Angelo Carletti di Chivasso

In the 17th Century Pope Benedict XIII beatified Angelo Carletti, giving official approval to the cult that had for long been paid to Angelo, especially by the people of Chivasso and Coni.

Antony Crockett

He is the son of John Crockett, (John Angus Basil) the artist, playwright and television and film director, grandson of Colonel Basil Crockett (Basil Edwin) DSO and William Joseph Stern OBE (civ.), nephew of Colonel Anthony John Stewart Crockett RM, OBE (Mil.), ADC, and descendant of the Blessed Ralph Crockett, English Martyr.

Barberi

Dominic Barberi (1792–1849), Italian theologian and Passionist; beatified in 1963

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.

Castang

Jeanne-Germaine Castang (1878-1897), French nun, Sister Marie-Céline of the Presentation, beatified in 2007

Congregation of Divine Providence

Driven into exile during the French Revolution, in 1793 he succumbed to typhus contracted while nursing fellow refugees, and was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1954.

Congregation of Marian Fathers

The community traces its roots to Blessed Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński who was beatified in Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, Licheń Stary, Poland, in 2007.

Eugenia Smet

The Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls was founded by Blessed Eugenia Smet, A.P. She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Lille, distinguishing herself by intellectual acquirements and striking traits of devotion to the souls in Purgatory.

Ghattas

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas (1843—1927), Palestinian Christian nun who was beatified

Górka Duchowna

Edmund Bojanowski, Polish layman beatified for sainthood by Pope John Paul II in 1999.

Jeanne-Germaine Castang

Castang was beatified on September 16 2007 at the Cathedral of Bordeaux, in the presence of Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, special envoy of the Pope, Archbishop of Bordeaux and President of the Conference of Bishops of France.

Joan of France, Duchess of Berry

The cause for her canonization was begun in 1631 and Pope Benedict XIV beatified her on 21 April 1742.

Miroslav Bulešić

He was declared beatified on 28 September 2013 in Istra, Croatia, by Cardinal Angelo Amato SDB, prefect of Congregation for the causes of the Saints.

Missa sancti Bernardi von Offida

This Mass was written in honor of St. Bernard of Offida, a Capuchin monk who devoted himself to helping the poor; a century after the monk's death, he was beatified by Pope Pius VI.

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.

Oliver Plunkett

(He has since been followed by 17 other Irish martyrs who were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1992. Among them were Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley, Margaret Ball, and the Wexford Martyrs.)

Płonkowo

The church contains the remains of Marian Skrzypczak, who was shot in Płonkowo in 1939 by Hitler youth, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1999.

Pope John Paul II's relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church

In 1998, he beatified Aloysius Stepinac, the Croatian war-time Archbishop of Zagreb, a move seen negatively by those who believe that he was an active collaborator with the Ustaše fascist regime, which committed genocide against Serbs as well as Jews.

Ramnagar Fort

The fort palace appears very vibrant and colourful when beatified during the one month long Ram Lila festival where different episodes of Ramayana are enacted.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Galle

However, right back into the time of Blessed Joseph Vaz and his Oratorian disciples and still earlier in Portuguese times (mid 16th Century) stations in its coastal fringe as well as in its Ratnapura reaches are on record for Evangelization and advanced pastoral structure.

Roman Catholicism in Sweden

In 2000 a Swedish woman Maria Elisabeth Hesselblad was beatified: she founded the Swedish chapter of the revived Catholic order of the Bridgettines.

Saint Fulk

The first Saint Fulk (there were three) was an English pilgrim who was beatified for his selfless assistance of plague victims even when this was a risk to himself.

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.


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