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						~ Confirmation of 
						Cultus (1) ~ | 
					
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Pope Sixtus V created the Congregation of Rites in 1588, which 
      was tasked, among others, to conduct processes of beatification and 
      canonization.      
In 1634, 
through the decree Cælestis Hierusalem Cives, Pope Urban VIII forbade 
the existence of any public veneration on any purported saint unless a process per viam cultus 
directed by the Congregation of Rites could prove that this person had been the 
object of an immemorial public veneration [cultus ab immemorabili tempore] at least one hundred years before the 
publication of the decree. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints (CCS), 
created in 1969, possesses the competence accorded to the now defunct 
Congregation of Rites.     
The ordinary title given to someone whose cultus has 
been confirmed is “Blessed”, unless the decree specifically permits the title to 
be “either Saint or Blessed” [sanctus vel beatus]. 
In case the Blessed would be eventually canonized, the designation 
[Bd.] would be used below and the date of canonization indicated in yellow.     | 
					
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						| Alexander VI [1492-1503]
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						| Bd. Ingrid Elovsdotter from Skännige (*) (c. 1220-82) c.c. 16 March 1499 | St. Brynolf Algotsson from Skara (*) (c. 1240-1317) c.c. 16 March 1499 | St. Hemming from Turku (*) (c. 1290-1366) c.c. 16 March 1499 | Bd. Nils Hermansson from Linköpping (*) (c. 1325-91) c.c. 16 March 1499 |  | 
					
						| * During the Council of Constance (1414-17), 
			the bishops of Sweden and Norway, with the support of Eric of 
			Pomerania (1412-42), King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, 
			formally petitioned the conciliar bishops to 
			canonize Ingrid Elovsdotter, Brynolf Algotsson,  and 
			Nils Hemansson.  However, the 
			council deemed it necessary for further 
			investigations be done on their fama sanctitatis atque fama 
			signorum. Thus, on 27 April 1416, the Council permitted 
			the opening of canonical inquiries for 
			these three.  Although separate investigations were enacted and 
			their results were forwarded to Rome, decades of inaction followed. In 1499, Sten Sture the Elder, Regent of Sweden, 
			petitioned Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) to carry out the 
			canonization of these three, along with Hemming from
			Turku.  On 16 March 1499, the pope granted permission 
			for the translatio of their 
			relics, thus legitimizing their public veneration, until he 
			himself can canonize them. While the translationes 
			took place in separate occasions, the canonization of the four never 
			happened.
 Political upheavals and the 
			beginning of the Reformation in Sweden during the 1520s stopped any 
			progress for the canonization of these four Scandinavian blesseds. 
			Nonetheless, the Roman Martyrology gives Brynolf Algotsson (6 
			February) and Hemming from Turku (21 May) the title “Saint”.
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						| Urban VIII [1623-44]
 | Innocent X [1644-55]
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						| [Bd.] 
			Ramón Nonato (1204-40) 
          c.c. 05 November 
			1625 
          eq.
          can. 10 March 1681 | Bd. Matteo Carreri (c. 1420-70) c.c. 02 December 1625 | Bd. Colomba Guadagnoli from Rieti (1467-1501) c.c. 25 February 1625 | [Bd.] Pedro Nolasco (1189-1256) 
          c.c. 30 September 1628 
          eq. can. 20 October 1655 | [Bd.] Bernardo Tolomei  
          (1272-1348) 
          c.c. 24 
			November 1644  
          can. 26 April 2009 | 
					
						| Innocent X [cont.]
 | Alexander 
          VII [1655-67]
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						| [Bd.] Niklaus von Flüe
			 (1417-87) 
          c.c. 01 February 1649 
          can. 15 May 1947 | [Bb.] Nicolaas Pieck and 18 Companions 
          († 1572) 
          
          c.c. 13 July 1649 
          beat. 24 November 1675 
          can. 29 June 1867 | [Bd.] Pedro de Arbués 
          (1440-85) 
          
          c.c. 23 March 1652 
          beat. 20 April 1664 
          can. 29 June 1867 | Bd. Bernardino Tomitano 
			from Feltre (1439-94) 
          c.c. 13 April 1654 | St. Fernando III  de Castilla (1199-1252) c.c. 31 
			May 1655 | 
					
						| Alexander 
          VII [cont.]
 | Clement 
          IX [1667-69]
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						| [Bd.] Jean de Matha (1160-1213) 
          c.c. 21 October 1666 
          
			eq. can. 
          19 March 1694 | [Bd.] Félix de Valois 
          (1127-1212) 
          c.c. 21 October 1666 
          eq. can. 19 
			March 1694 | Bd. Pedro Pascual(1227-1300) 
          c.c. 4 June 1670 | Bd. Ludovica Albertoni 
			della Cetera (1474-1533) 
          c.c. 28 
			January 1671 | Bd. Giacomo Bianconi from 
			Bevagna 
          (1220-1301) 
          
          c.c. 18 May 1672 | 
					
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			Clement X 
          
			 [cont.] | 
			Innocent XI 
          
			 [1676-89] | 
					
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						| Bd. Salomea from Poland (1227-1300) 
          c.c. 17 May 1673 | [Bd.] Caterina Fieschi Adorno from Genoa 
          (1447-1510) 
          c.c. 06 April 1675 
          can. 16 June 1737 | Bd. Oleguer Bonestruga  from Barcelona (c. 1060-1137) 
          
          c.c. 25 May 1675 | [Bd.] Jan Wacięga
			 from Kęty 
          (c. 1320-1437) 
          c.c. 28 March 1676 
          can. 16 July 1767 | Bd. Amadeo IX di Savoia 
          (1435-72) 
          
          c.c. 3 March 1677 | 
					
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			Innocent XI 
          
			 [cont.] | 
					
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						| [Bd.] Giuliana Falconieri 
          (c. 1270-1341) 
          c.c. 26 July 1678 
          can. 16 June 1737 | [Bd.] Pedro Regalado
			 de la Costanilla 
          (1390-1456) 
          c.c. 17 August 1683 
          can. 29 June 1746 | [Bd.] Szymon from Lipnica 
          (c. 1439-81) 
          
          beat. 24 February 1685 
          can. 3 June 2007 | Bd. Pedro Armengol Rocafort 
          (c. 1238-1304) 
          c.c. 28 March 1686 | Bd. Antonio Vici 
			 from Stroncone 
          (1381-1461) 
          c.c. 28 June 1687 | 
					
						| Alexander 
          VIII [1689-91]
 |  | Innocent XII [1691-1700]
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						| [Bd.] Kinga of Poland (c. 
			1224-92) 
          c.c. 11 June 1690 
          can. 16 June 1999 |  | Bd. María de Cervellón [María 
			del Socorro] 
          (1230-90) 
          c.c. 13 February 1692 | Bd. Joana de Portugal 
          (1452-90) 
          c.c. 31 December 1692 
						 | Bd. Pietro Gambacorta from 
			Pisa 
          (1355-1435) 
          c.c. 9 December 1693 | 
					
						| Innocent XII [cont.]
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						| Bd. Umiliana de’ Cerchi 
          (1219-46) 
          c.c. 24 July 1694 
						 | Bd. Elena Enselmini 
          (1208-42) 
          c.c. 29 October 1695 
						 | St. Zita from Lucca  
          (1218-78) 
          c.c. 5 September 1696 
						 | Bd. María Toribia 
			 [María de la Cabeza] 
          (?-1175) 
          c.c. 7 August 1697 
						 | Bd. Augustin Kažotić 
          (c. 1260-1323) 
          c.c. 17 July 1700 | 
					
						| Clement 
          XI [1700-21]
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						| Bd. Jakov Varingez 
			from Bitetto 
          (c. 1400-96) 
          c.c. 29 December 1700 | [Bd.] Pellegrino Laziosi 
          (c. 1265-1345) 
          c.c. 11 September 1702 
          can. 27 December 1726 | Bb. Giovanni from Perugia 
			and Pietro from Sassoferrato 
          (+1231) 
          c.c. 31 January 1705 
						 | Bd. Teresa Sanches 
			 de Portugal 
          (1176-1250) 
          c.c. 30 May 1705 | Bd. Sancha Sanches 
			 de Portugal 
          (1180-1229) 
          c.c. 30 May 1705 | 
					
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			Clement 
          XI 
			 [cont.] | 
					
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						| Bd. Lucia Broccadelli 
			 from Narni 
          (1476-1544) 
          c.c. 1 March 1710 
						 | Bd. Czesław Odrowąż   
          (c. 1175-1242) 
          c.c. 27 August 1712 | Bd. Gregory X 
			[Teobaldo Visconti] 
          (c. 1210-76) 
          c.c. 8 July 1713 
						 | Bd. Liberato from Loro 
			Piceno  
          (c. 1190-1234) 
          c.c. 2 
			September 1713 
						 | [Bd.] Alessio Falconieri  
          (c. 1200-1310) 
          c.c. 1 December 1717 
          can. 15 January 1888 | 
					
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			Clement 
          XI 
			 [cont.] | 
			Innocent 
          XIII 
			 
			[1721-24] |  | 
					
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						| Bd. Umiltà Negusanti  
          from Caccianemici 
          (c. 1226-1310) 
          c.c. 27 January 1720 
						 | [Bd.] Jan Velfín
			 from Nepomuk 
          [Jan Nepomucene] 
          (c. 1340-93) 
          c.c. 31 May 1721 
          can. 19 March 1729 | Bd. Dalmacio Moner 
          (1291-1341) 
          c.c. 13 August 1721 
						 | Bd. Andrea Conti 
			 from Segni 
          (1240-1302) 
          c.c. 11 December 1723 
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