Beatification

The beatification is a rite of use in the Churches catholic Anglican, and orthodoxe, consisting in declaring a person “happy” following a life considered to be exemplary. The happy one receives then a public, but given worship with a place, a religious family…

She takes seat after a declaration of “venerability” but precedes the stage by the Canonization. According to the article 9a of the Standards for the cause of the saints ( Novæ light pro causis sanctorum ), promulgated the February 7th 1983, the bishop S must wait five years after the death of the person concerned before introducing her cause, so that the emotion does not enter in account.

The majority of the theologists do not regard the bliss as an infallible declaration on behalf of the Church, contrary to the Canonization.

The pope Jean-Paul II has, at the time of his pontificate, modified considerably the practice of the beatification. Since October 2004, it béatifié 1340 individuals, that is to say more than the unit of the beatifications carried out by its predecessors since the pope Sixte V, who establishes a procedure of beatification similar to that in practice today. Moreover, Jean-Paul II introduced itself a cause in Canonization, which makes it possible to draw aside the five years reserve: the beatification of Mère Teresa in 2003 was indeed only marked six years after its death. In the same way, the pope Benoit XVI authorized the beginning of the lawsuit in beatification of Jean-Paul II before the 5 years.

The purpose of beatification and canonization are, on behalf of the Catholic church, to propose in example with the Christian people the testimony of one of its late members, indicated under the title of happy and saint.

The worship of the saint is proposed with the universal Church.

The worship results in the one feastday attribution to the calendar, as much as possible that of the terrestrial death of canonized (and of its entry in the Sky).

Caution: this worship is not a Culte of dead the , since the happy ones and the Saint S are in the Eternal Vie . The Communion of the saints is besides a dogma of faith taken again with the " Credo". Several passages of the Gospel S attest it.

Examples of Happy

  • the priests massacred with the convent of the Carmelite friars and in the church Saint-Paul Saint-Louis the September 2nd 1792, at the time of the Massacres of September, were declared happy by the Catholic church. September 2nd is a festival in the liturgical calendar. This festival does not appear in the ordinary Agenda S.

  • the October 17th 1926, are béatifiés in Rome 191 martyrs of the Révolution, of which massacred priests the September 3rd 1792 with the Saint-Firmin seminar (or of the Good-Children or the Mission or the Lazaristes), then transformed into prison.

  • Frederic Ozanam, founder of the company Holy Vincent of Paul, is happy. Its tomb is in the church of the Carmelite friars.

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