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Pope John XXIII (25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) and Pope John Paul II (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) reigned as popes of the Roman Catholic Church and the sovereigns of Vatican City (respectively from 1958 to 1963 and 1978 to 2005). Their canonizations were held on 27 April 2014. [1] The decision to canonize was made official by Pope Francis ...
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.
In addition, 13 other popes are in the process of becoming canonised saints: as of December 2018, two are recognised as being Servants of God, one is recognised as being Venerable, and 10 have been declared Blessed or Beati, making a total of 95 (97 if Pope Liberius and Pope Adeodatus II are recognised to be saints) of the 266 Roman pontiffs ...
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 ...
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 ...
Savonarola was born on 21 September 1452 in Ferrara to Niccolò di Michele and Elena. His father, Niccolò, was born in Ferrara to a family originally from Padua; his mother, Elena, claimed a lineage from the Bonacossi family of Mantua. She and Niccolò had seven children, of whom Girolamo was third.
v. t. e. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1917 CIC, from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also referred to as the Pio-Benedictine Code, [ 1 ] is the first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law. Ordered by Pope Pius X in 1904 and carried out by the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law, led by Pietro Cardinal ...
Many of the stories that surround the life of Francis say that he had a great love for animals and the environment. [47] The Fioretti ("Little Flowers") is a collection of legends and folklore that sprang up after his death. One account describes how one day, while Francis was travelling with some companions, they happened upon a place in the ...