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Following the sacred formula of beatification, the banner revealing an image of a smiling John Paul II was unfurled on the Central Loggia of St. Peter's Basilica.. Pope John Paul II reigned as pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State for 26 years from October 1978 to his death, on 2 April 2005.
Pope John Paul II beatified 1,344 people. [1] [2] The names listed below are from the Holy See website and are listed by year, then date.The locations given are the locations of the beatification ceremonies, and not necessarily the birthplaces or homelands of the beatified.
Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) markedly changed the previous Catholic practice of beatification. By October 2004, he had beatified 1,340 people, more than the sum of all of his predecessors since Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590), who established a beatification procedure similar to that used today.
Pages in category "Beatifications by Pope John Paul II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 416 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In an unprecedented move, the Vatican on Sunday beatified a Polish family of nine — a married couple and their small children — who were executed by the Nazis during World War II for ...
According to Monsignor Sławomir Oder, the postulator of John Paul II's beatification cause, John Paul's words to Pinochet had a profound impact on the Chilean dictator. The pope confided to a friend: "I received a letter from Pinochet in which he told me that as a Catholic he had listened to my words, he had accepted them, and he had decided ...
Date of beatification; 108 Martyrs of World War II: 1939–1945: 1999 Adílio Daronch: 1924: 2007 Adolph Kolping: 1865: 1991 Adrian Fortescue: 1539: 1895 Agatha Phutta: 1940: 1989 Agathange de Vendome: 1638: Agnellus of Pisa, OFM: 1236: 1882 Agnes Phila, LHC: 1940: 1989 Alain de Solminihac: 1659: 1981 Albertina Berkenbrock: 1931: 2007 Alberto ...
Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as "Blessed Charlie" (November 22, 1918 – July 13, 1963), was a Catholic catechist and liturgist who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 29, 2001. [1] He is the first Puerto Rican and the first Caribbean-born layperson in history to be beatified.