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Beatification

Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...

 1,340 people, more than any previous pope

Pope

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle...

. The names listed below are from the Vatican

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

 websitehttp://www.vatican.va and are listed by year, then date. The locations given are the locations of the beatification ceremonies, not necessarily the birthplaces or homelands of the beati.

3 October 2004

• Peter Vigne (1670-1740)
• Joseph-Marie Cassant (1878-1903)
• Anne Catherine Emmerich
  Anne Catherine Emmerich
  Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun, stigmatic, mystic, visionary and ecstatic....
  
   (1774-1824)
• Maria Ludovica De Angelis (1880-1962)
• Charles of Austria (1887-1922)

5 September 2004, Loreto

• Pere Tarrés i Claret (1905-1950)
• Alberto Marvelli
  Alberto Marvelli
  Alberto Marvelli was an Italian member of the Catholic Action.Born at Ferrara, he was given a Christian formation by his mother, who kept their home open to the poor...
  
   (1918-1946)
• Pina Suriano (1915-1950)

25 April 2004, 3rd Sunday of Easter

• Augusto Czartoryski (1858-1893)
• Laura Montoya (1874-1949)
• María Guadalupe García Zavala (1878-1963)
• Giulia Nemesia Valle (1847-1916)
• Eusebia Palomino Yenes (1899-1935)
• Alexandrina Maria da Costa
  Alexandrina Maria da Costa
  Alexandrina Maria da Costa , also known as Blessed Alexandrina of Balasar, was a Portuguese mystic of the Eucharist, who was born and died in Balasar . Alexandrina left many written works, which have been studied mainly in Italy by Fr. Umberto Pasquale and Signorile couple...
  
   (1904-1955)

21 March 2004, 4th Sunday of Lent

• Luigi Talamoni (1848-1926)
• Matilde del Sagrado Corazón Téllez Robles (1841-1902)
• Piedad de la Cruz Ortiz Real (1842-1916)
• Maria Candida of the Eucharist
  Maria Candida of the Eucharist
  Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist, O.C.D., was a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, beatified by Pope John Paul II. The daughter of an appellate court judge, Pietro Barba, the family home was in Palermo, Sicily, but she was born in Catanzaro, Italy, during a brief assignment of her father to that...
  
   (1884-1949)

9 November 2003

• Juan Nepomucene Zegrí y Moreno (1831-1905)
• Valentin Paquay (1828-1905)
• Luigi Maria Monti (1825-1900)
• Bonifacia Rodríguez Castro (1837-1905)
• Rosalie Rendu
  Rosalie Rendu
  Blessed Rosalie Rendu, D.C. . She was the eldest of four girls. Her parents, simple living mountain people and small property owners, enjoyed a certain affluence and true respect throughout the area. Baptized the day she was born in the parish church of Lancrans, she was given the name Jeanne-Marie...
  
   (1786-1856)

14 September 2003, Slovakia

• Vasiľ Hopko (1904-1976)
• Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová
  Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová
  Blessed Zdenka Cecília Schelingová , was a Slovak nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.She was born at Krivá na Orave...
  
   (1916-1955)

27 April 2003

• James Alberione (1884-1971)
• Mark of Aviano (1631-1699)
• Maria Cristina Brando (1856-1906)
• Eugenia Ravasco (1845-1900)
• Maria Domenica Mantovani (1862-1934)
• Giulia Salzano
  Giulia Salzano
  Saint Giulia Salzano was the founder of the Congregation of the Catechetical Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1905. She was raised and educated by the Sisters of Charity in the Royal Orphanage of Saint Nicola La Strada until the age of fifteen...
  
   (1846-1929)

23 March 2003

• Pierre Bonhomme
  Pierre bonhomme
  Pierre Bonhomme is a Canadian filmmaker and designer born in Sudbury, Ontario. He works in Toronto and Sudbury.Bonhomme's creative career began with studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, followed by graduate school for architecture at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova...
  
   (1803-1861)
• María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña  (1848-1918)
• María Caridad Brader  (1860-1943)
• Juana María Condesa Lluch  (1862-1916)
• László Batthyány-Strattmann
  László Batthyány-Strattmann
  The Blessed Prince László Batthyány-Strattmann de Németújvár, in German Ladislaus Fürst Batthyány-Strattmann von Güssing, was a Hungarian aristocrat and physician. The devout Catholic became known as the "doctor of the poor"...
  
   (1870-1931)

Blesseds in the Year 2002

• Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa (1902 ca.-1918)
• Andrea Giacinto Longhin (1863-1936)
• Marcantonio Durando (1801-1880)
• Mary of the Passion Hélène Marie de Chappotin de Neuville (1839-1904)
• Sr Liduina Meneguzzi (1901-1941)
• Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński
  Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński
  Saint Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, SFO was Archbishop of Warsaw and founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary. He was canonized on 11 October 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI.-Early life:...
  
   (1822-1895)
• Jan Balicki (1869-1948)
• Jan Beyzym (1850-1912)
• Sancja Szymkowiak (1910-1942)
• Juan Bautista and Jacinto de Los Angeles
• Kamen Vitchev
  Kamen Vitchev
  Born May 23, 1893 at Srem, Bulgaria, Peter Vitchev came from a peasant family. He joined the Catholic congregation known as the Assumptionists, or Augustinians of the Assumption, in 1910, beginning his novitiate in Gempe, Belgium, and later taking the name Kamen. He pursued his studies of...
  
  
• Pavel Djidjov
  Pavel Djidjov
  Pavel Djidjov was a Bulgarian theologian who was executed after a show trial and beatified in 2002 by Pope John Paul II.-Education, career:...
  
  
• Josaphat Chichkov
  Josaphat Chichkov
  Robert-Matthew Chichkov in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, was a priest, rector and teacher sentenced to death in the early 1950s.He came from a large and fervent Latin rite Catholic family. He entered the Assumptionist high school seminary in Adrianopolis and entered the Assumptionist novitiate in Phanaraki,...
  
  
• Gaetano Errico
  Gaetano Errico
  St. Gaetano Errico was born on October 19, 1791 in Secondigliano, a small village of Naples, Italy. He was the second of nine children born to Pasquale and Marie Errico. His father managed a small pasta factory and his mother worked at the loom weaving plush...
  
   (1791-1860)
• Lodovico Pavoni (1748-1849)
• Luigi Variara (1875-1923)
• María del Tránsito de Jesús Sacramentado (1821-1885)
• Artemide Zatti (1880-1951)
• Maria Romero Meneses
  Maria Romero Meneses
  Blessed María Romero Meneses, was a Salesian Sisters, beatified by Pope John Paul II on the 14 April 2002.-Early life:...
  
   (1902-1977)

Blesseds in the Year 2001

• Pavol Peter Gojdič
  Pavol Peter Gojdic
  Pavol Gojdič, also known as Pavel Peter Gojdič or Peter Gojdič , was a Basilian monk and the bishop of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Prešov martyred by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia....
  
   (1888-1960)
• Metod Dominik Trčka (1886-1959)
• Giovanni Antonio Farina (1803-1888)
• Bartolomeu dei Martiri Fernandes (1514-1590)
• Luigi Tezza (1841-1923)
• Paolo Manna
  Paolo Manna
  Paolo Manna a missionary in Burma who was the superior general of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. He was the founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union. He was beatified by John Paul II in 2001.-Externals links:*...
  
   (1872-1952)
• Gaetana Sterni (1827-1889)
• Maria del Pilar Izquierdo Albero (1906-1945)
• Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi (1880-1951)
• Maria Corsini vedova Beltrame Quattrocchi (1884-1965)
• Ignazio Maloyan (1869-1915)
• Nikolaus Gross (1898-1945)
• Alfonso Maria Fusco
  Alfonso Maria Fusco
  Blessed Alfonso Maria Fusco was a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist, commonly known as Baptistine Sisters...
  
   (1839-1910)
• Tommaso Maria Fusco (1831-1891)
• Émilie Tavernier Gamelin
  Émilie Gamelin
  Émilie Gamelin , also known as Marie-Émilie-Eugène Gamelin and Amélie Gamelin, was a Canadian social worker and Roman Catholic nun. She is best known as the founder and first superior of the Sisters of Providence...
  
   (1800-1851)
• Eugenia Picco (1867-1921)
• Maria Euthymia Üffing (1914-1955)

23-27 June 2001, Ukraine

• Giorgio Preca (1880-1962)
• Ignazio (Nazju) Falzon (1813-1865)
• Maria Adeodata Pisani
  Maria Adeodata Pisani
  Born 29 December 1806 at Naples, Italy; Died 25 February 1855 at the Benedictine monastery at Mdina, MaltaVenerated: 24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II Beatified: 9 May 2001 by Pope John Paul II...
  
   (1806-1855)
• Manuel González García (1877-1940)
• Marie Anne Blondin (1809-1890)
• Caterina Volpicelli
  Caterina Volpicelli
  Caterina Volpicelli was an Italian nun, foundress of the Congregation “Ancelle del Sacro Cuore di Gesù” . She was proclaimed Blessed by Joan Paul II in 2001 and Saint on April 26, 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI....
  
   (1839-1894)
• Caterina Cittadini (1801-1857)
• Carlos Emanuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago (1918-1963)
• José Aparicio Sanz and 232 Companions, Martyrs in Spain (+ 1936-1939)

5 March 2000

• Andrew de Soveral (1572 ca. -1645)
• Ambrosio Francisco Ferro (†1645)
• Nicolas Bunkerd Kitbamrung (1895-1944)
• Adelaide Mardosewicz (1888-1943) and 10 compagnons
• Pedro Calungsod
  Pedro Calungsod
  Blessed Pedro Calungsod is a Filipino Roman Catholic martyr who was killed while doing missionary work in Guam in 1672. He was beatified on March 5, 2000, by Pope John Paul II. As a skilled sacristan and teacher of cathecism, he was a companion of Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores to the Marianas...
  
   (1654-1672)
• Andrew of Phu Yen (1625/1626-1644)

9 April 2000

• Mariano de Jesús Euse Hoyos (1845-1926)
• Francesco Saverio Seelos (1819-1867)
• Anna Rosa Gattorno (1831-1900)
• Elisabeth Hesselblad
  Elisabeth Hesselblad
  Blessed Elisabeth Hesselblad, religious name Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad, was a Swedish nurse, nun, and beatified woman....
  
   (1870-1957)
• Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan (1876-1926)

3 September 2000

• Pius IX (1792-1878)
• John XXIII (1881-1963)
• Tommaso Reggio
  Tommaso Reggio
  Tommaso Reggio was the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Genoa, Italy. On September 3, 2000, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II....
  
   (1818-1901)
• Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade
  William Joseph Chaminade
  William Joseph Chaminade or Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade, now called by his liturgical title of Blessed Chaminade , was a French Roman Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution. He founded the Society of Mary, also called the Marianists, in 1817...
  
   (1761-1850)
• Columba Marmion
  Columba Marmion
  Blessed Columba Marmion, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion was an Irish monk, and the third abbot of Maredsous Abbey. Beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 3, 2000, Marmion was one of the most popular and influential Catholic writers of the 20th century...
  
   (1858-1923)

3 October 1999

• Nicola da Gesturi (1882-1958)
• Edward Joannes Maria Poppe (1890-1924)
• Ferdinando Maria Baccilieri (1821-1893)
• Diego Oddi (1839-1919)
• Mariano da Roccacasale (1778-1866)
• Archangelo Tadini (1846-1912)

25 October 1998

• Frei Antônio de Sant'Anna Galvão (1739-1822)
• Don Zefirino Agostini (1813-1896)
• Faustino Míguez (1831-1925)
• Theodore Guerin
  Theodore Guerin
  Saint Mother Théodore Guérin , designated by the Vatican as Saint Theodora, is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, a congregation of Catholic nuns...
  
   (1798-1856)

21 June 1998

• Maria Restituta Helena Kafka  (1894-1943)
• Jakob Franz Alexander Kern (1897-1924)
• Anton Maria Schwartz (1852-1929)

10 May 1998

• María Sagrario de San Luis Gonzaga (1881-1936)
• María Gabriela Hinojosa Naveros (1872-1936)
• Francisca del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Aldea Araujo (1881-1936)
• Rita Dolores Pujalte Sánchez (1852-1928)
• María Maravillas de Jesús Pidal (1891-1974)
• Nimatullah Al-Hardini Youssef Kassab
  Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini
  Saint Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini , a Lebanese Roman Catholic saint and a member of the Maronite Church.-Miracles of Saint Nimatullah Kassab Hardini:...
  
   (1808-1858)

9 November 1997

• Vilmos Apor
  Vilmos Apor
  Blessed Baron Vilmos Apor de Altorja was the Bishop of Győr during World War II who became famous for protesting against the persecution of the Hungarian Jews...
  
   (1892-1945)
• Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-1905)
• Maria Vicenta de Santa Dorotea Chávez Orozco (1867-1949)

12 October 1997

• Giovanni Battista Piamarta (1841-1913)
• Domenico Lentini (1770-1828)
• Émilie D'Hooghvorst (1818-1878)
• Elias del Soccorso Neves (1882-1928)
• Maria Teresa Fasce (1881-1947)

24 November 1996

• Otto Neururer (1882-1940)
• Jakob Gapp (1897-1943)
• Catherine Jarrige
  Catherine Jarrige
  Blessed Catherine Jarrige , known as Catinon Menette, a beatified third-order Dominican of the Catholic Church.- Youth :...
  
  (1754-1836)