Finally, the canonization of Aloysius and Stanislaus Kostka along with the beatification of John Francis Regis put the stamp of the Church's most solemn approval on the Institute of Ignatius Loyola.
His beatification was especially welcome, because, as Berchmans was the very incarnation of the Jesuit rule, the Order cannot have been the iniquitous organization it is frequently said to be.
He is now like Bellarmine ranked among the venerable, and the process of his beatification is proceeding.
Beatification consists in permitting a cultus, the manifestations of which are restricted, and is merely a step towards canonization.
A favourable judgment on all three of these tests is called the decree de tuto, by which the pope decides that they may safely proceed to the solemn beatification of the servant of God (Tuto procedi potest ad solemnem V.
But if the beatification of the world is not a work of nature but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
If the beatification of the world is a mere work of nature, then it must be as simple as the freezing of the world, or the burning up of the world.
What is the difference between the honors conferred on a person by beatification and Canonization?
Beatification limits the honor to be given to the beatified by restricting it to certain places or persons; whereas Canonization is the highest honor and permits all to venerate the Saint everywhere.
On the occasion of the Pope's Jubilee in 1887, ten cases of beatification will be decided.
The decree for the introduction of the cause for the beatification and canonization of Joan of Arc has been signed at last.
In other words, man, by self-repression and the effacement of every faculty of mind and body, is to attain unto final beatification or emancipation.
There is nothing in this long and tedious process itself which assures us that any soul will reach final beatification rather than permanent and irremediable degradation.
Also St. Jane Frances deChantal's Depositions in the Cause of the Beatificationand Canonisation of St. Francis de Sales.
On the 22nd February of the same year, the Holy Father signed decrees bearing on the beatification of several holy persons, among whom was Clement Maria Hofbauer, a Redemptorist.
A formal petition for the beatification of Marie Rivier, the foundress of the presentation Nuns of France, was then presented.
Thereby Pius X, himself, manifests his high regard for the blessed one and confirms the words pronounced shortly before the beatification of the former humble cure.
Hardly forty-five years had elapsed since the remains of the deceased were laid at rest, under the pulpit of his parish church, when the Holy See announced its decision permitting the beatification process to be introduced.
Rarely has a process ofbeatification been set in motion so quickly as was that of John Baptist Vianney.
Death andBeatification of the Blessed Cure Litany and Prayer in honor of Blessed John B.
Now be pleased to rouse Rama from his torpor, which you alone can do, by your beatification in the apathy; whilst we being employed in worldly affairs, are too far from it.
The ceremony of her beatificationwas performed by Clement XII.
A general congregation is then held, to determine whether it be advisable to proceed to the beatification of the proposed.
When the proceedings for the beatification are completed, the proceedings for the canonization begin.
The solicitor for the beatification presents the brief to the cardinal-prefect; he remits it to the cardinal-archpriest of the church where the ceremony is held.
The proceedings of beatification or canonization are long, rigorous, and expensive.
Another source of information, of which our author availed himself in the composition of his work, was the Acts of the Beatification and Canonization of the Saints.
A sketch of the literature which has followed this movement is given in Baron van Brocken's Des Vicissitudes Posthumes de Christophe Colomb, et de sa Beatification Possible (Leipzig et Paris, 1865).
Even the ardent supporters of the cause of beatification are forced to admit that there is no record of such a marriage.
Indeed, as we shall see later on, it is highly improbable that, but for this condition of the body, a cultus would ever have arisen sufficiently popular and permanent to lead on to her Beatification and Canonization.
After juridical informations on his life and miracles, the bull of his beatification was published by the true pope Clement VII.
This ceremony is usually performed before the beatification of a servant of God, though the incorruption of the body by itself is not regarded as a miraculous proof at Rome or elsewhere, as Collet remarks.
See also the bull of hisbeatification in Miræus, and a history of a great number of miracles wrought by his intercession and relics in Pinius, ib.
As for the conspirators, I have already alluded to the strange delay which postponed for forty-three years the final sentence of Stefano Confaloniero, and to the repentance and beatification of Carino, who became St. Acerinus.
His matchless eloquence, his rigid austerity, his superhuman vigor, and his unquenchable zeal for the extermination of heresy well earned the beatification conferred on him after death; and since 1417 he had been known as a hammer of heretics.
We are led by subtle gradations, by labyrinthine delays, to the finalbeatification of Adonis.
