
Beatifications of Pope Pius XII
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Beatifications of Pope Pius XII includes all persons beatified during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII
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by Pius XII, a majority are women, with Spanish, Italian and French backgrounds:
Pope Pius XII
The Venerable Pope Pius XII , born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli , reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958....
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Beatifications
Among the persons beatifiedBeatification
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...
by Pius XII, a majority are women, with Spanish, Italian and French backgrounds:
- Maria Soledad Torres Acosta,
- Maddalena di Canossa,
- Marcelino Champagnat
- The Franciscan Martyrs of China,
- Paola Elisabetta CerioliPaola Elisabetta CerioliSaint Paola Elisabetta Cerioli is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church from Soncino, Italy and founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Holy Family and the congregation of the Family of Bergamo.-Early years:...
- Alix le Clerc,
- John Baptist Turpin du Cormier,
- Jeanne DelanoueJeanne DelanoueSaint Jeanne Delanoue is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church from France and founder of the Congregation of St. Anne of Providence.-Early life:...
, - Philippine Duchesne,
- Contardo FerriniContardo FerriniBlessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S., was born on 5 April 1859 in Milan, Italy, to Rinaldo Ferrini and Luigia Buccellati. He was baptized at the same baptismal font where the Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, also a native of Milan, had been baptized 46 years prior...
, - Maria GorettiMaria GorettiMaria Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused him...
- Pope Innocent XIPope Innocent XIBlessed Pope Innocent XI , born Benedetto Odescalchi, was Pope from 1676 to 1689.-Early life:Benedetto Odescalchi was born at Como in 1611 , the son of a Como nobleman, Livio Odescalchi, and Paola Castelli Giovanelli from Gandino...
- Justin de JacobisJustin de JacobisSaint Justin de Jacobis was an Italian Lazarist missionary who became Vicar Apostolic of Abyssinia and titular Bishop of Nilopolis.-Biography:He was born at San Fele, Province of Potenza in southern Italy...
, - Ignatius de Laconi,
- Vincenzo Palotti
- Pope Pius XPope Pius XPope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...
- Maria Crocifissa di RosaMaria Crocifissa di RosaMaria Crocifissa Di Rosa was the founder of the Handmaids of Charity in Brescia, Italy, in 1839. She was both beatified and canonized by Pope Pius XII.She was born as Paolina Francesca di Rosa on November 6, 1813, in the city of Brescia, Italy...
- Emilie de RodatEmilie de RodatEmilie de Rodat was the founder of a French female order and a mystic. Pope Pius XII beatified her June 9, 1940 and canonized her April 23, 1950. Her feast day is September 19. Her foundation, created in the year 1815 focused on young women and girls with difficulties, prisoners of war and...
- Pierre Romancon,
- Domenico Savio,
- Marie Therese de Soubiran,
- Rose VeneriniRose VeneriniSaint Rosa Venerini was the founder of a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women, often called the Venerini Sisters. Rosa Venerini died a saintly death in the community of St. Mark's in Rome on the evening of May 7, 1728.She was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 15, 2006.-Early...
, - Theresa Eustachio Verzeri,
- Emilie de Vialar,
- Maria Lopez Vicuna,
Sources
- Oscar Hallecki, James Murray, Jr. Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope of Peace, New York, 1954
- Pascalina Lehnert, Pius XII, Ich durfte ihm dienen, Würzburg, 1982
- Jan Olav Smit, Pope Pius XII, London&Dublin 1951

