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Icon of St. Cyprian of Carthage, who urged diligence in the process of canonization. Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, [1] specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, [2] or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.
In the Catholic Church, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, previously named the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (Latin: Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum), is the dicastery of the Roman Curia that oversees the complex process that leads to the canonization of saints, passing through the steps of a declaration of "heroic virtues" and beatification.
and the Pontifical High Mass of Canonization (Beatification) celebrated in the Vatican Basilica, during which the Pope officially proclaimed the martyr or the confessor to be Saint for the whole Catholic Church. [2] [5] The saint may have a church consecrated with his or her name, or be prayed to as an intercessor during a Votive Mass. [2]
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana: Professed Religious, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Indianapolis: Heroic Virtues 1955 Mary Josephine Rogers [31] (rel. name: Mary Joseph) 27 October 1882 Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts 9 October 1955 Manhattan, New York: Cofounder, Maryknoll Sisters of Saint Dominics: New York: Heroic Virtues ...
While the procedure of canonization was taken in hand from the twelfth century by the papacy in Rome, that of beatification continued on a local scale until the thirteenth century before settling at the Council of Trent, which reserved to the pope the right to say who could be venerated. [8]
Ryan Harris, 15, dressed in a long black cassock or priest vestment, portrayed Augustus Tolton, one of six Black Catholics up for sainthood by the Vatican.
The hermit Romuald, founder of the Camaldolese order, was one of the first saints to receive an equivalent canonization (in 1595).. Through an equivalent canonization or equipollent canonization (Latin: equipollens canonizatio) a pope can choose to relinquish the judicial processes, formal attribution of miracles, and scientific examinations that are typically involved in the canonization of a ...
By RYAN GORMAN Many people - including Pope Francis - are now arguing that slain American journalist James Foley is a martyr, and some believe he should be considered for sainthood. Foley's devout ...