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The most recently reigning Pope to have been canonised was Pope John Paul II, whose cause for canonisation was opened in May 2005. John Paul II was beatified on 1 May 2011, by Pope Benedict XVI and later canonised, along with Pope John XXIII, by Pope Francis on 27 April 2014. [1] Pope Francis also canonised Pope Paul VI on 14 October 2018.
Date of Canonization Place of Canonization 1. José de Anchieta [4] 3 April 2014 Apostolic Palace, Vatican City: 2. Marie of the Incarnation [4] 3. François de Laval [4] 4. Pope John XXIII [5] 27 April 2014 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City: 5. Pope John Paul II [5] 6. Kuriakose Elias Chavara [6] 23 November 2014 7. Nicola Saggio [6] 8 ...
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
The following are saints canonized by Pope John Paul II from 2001–2005: Saint. Date of Canonization. Place of Canonization. Luigi Scrosoppi [1] 10 June 2001. St. Peter's Basilica. Agostino Roscelli [1] 10 June 2001.
Canonization is a papal declaration that the Catholic faithful may venerate a particular deceased member of the church. Popes began making such decrees in the tenth century. Up to that point, the local bishops governed the veneration of holy men and women within their own dioceses; and there may have been, for any particular saint, no formal ...
The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible. For most churches, the canon is an agreed-upon list of 27 books [ 1 ] that includes the canonical Gospels, Acts, letters attributed to various apostles, and Revelation.
3 July 1988. St. Peter's Basilica. 27. Magdalene of Canossa. 2 October 1988. St. Peter's Basilica. 28. Maria Rosa Molas y Vallvé. 11 December 1988.
Pope Leo I (c. 400 – 10 November 461), also known as Leo the Great, [1] was Bishop of Rome [2] from 29 September 440 until his death. Leo was a Roman aristocrat, and was the first pope to have been called "the Great". He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun in 452 and