This week Pope Francis will spend five days there, for Asian Youth Day and to beatify 124 early martyrs. |
They will gather at the Vatican later this month to beatify 498 victims, mostly priests, monks and nuns, of leftist Republicans during and before the civil war. |
On May 1, 2011, Divine Mercy Sunday, in Rome, Benedict XVI will beatify John Paul II, who canonized St. JosemarÃa. |
In 1985, after his cardinal petitioned the Vatican to beatify 117 Vietnamese martyrs, he was told he could never be released. |
Now that the miracle attributed to Mother Teresa has been authenticated, the Pope will beatify the Nobel Peace Prize winner. |
In 1995, he visited Papua New Guinea, this time to beatify the catechist Peter To Rot. |