The two, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, are the first children ever beatified by the Roman Catholic Church who were not martyrs.
In 1997, the aforementioned holy man beatified none other than Mother Theresa.
Each child (aged 12-13) beatified a box and wrote a story on the subject of collections to throw inside it.
On that day, the pope beatified the two other visionaries, the little shepherds Jacinta and Francisco, and Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, read the text relative to the third secret of Fatima.
That the former of these objects has been fulfilled is clearly indicated by the number of Friars Minor who have been canonized and beatified by the Church.
Mother Teresa was beatified in 2003 but not yet been canonized by the Vatican.
Kerouac claimed that the origin of the word was to be found in "beatified".
克魯奧克認為該詞一定源於“beatified”。
Pope John Paul has canonised or beatified times more people than all of his 20th-century predecessors put together: well over 1,000, compared with 56 under Pope Paul VI and just 69 in the 60 years before that.
My venerable Predecessor Pope John Paul II, who is with us at this moment, beatified and canonized a great many people from both the distant and the recent past.
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