| But this time some 69 cardinals and 1,228 bishops and archbishops had supported the campaign for beatification. |
| Once declared a holy person, the next step is beatification and finally canonisation. |
| As an outsider, I am of course not entitled to a view about who deserves beatification or canonization. |
| Her successor says beatification, the step just short of sainthood, will be important not just for her order. |
| The facts emerged only during the investigation of her life preceding her beatification, which takes place in Rome this month. |
| We wrote a pretty irreverent piece on the Pope's beatification of two dead shepherd children. |
