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Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has authorized the beatification of 1,533 people, including two equipollent[ clarification needed ] beatifications. The names listed below are from the Holy See website and are listed by year, then date. The locations given are the locations of the beatification ceremonies, not necessarily the birthplaces or homelands of the beatified.
No. | Name | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification | Presided by | Feast Day |
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1. | Cristobal of Saint Catherine | 7 April 2013 | Córdoba, Spain | Cardinal Angelo Amato | July 21 |
2. | Luca Passi | 13 April 2013 | Venice, Italy | April 18 | |
3. | Nicolò Rusca | 21 April 2013 | Sondrio, Italy | September 4 | |
4. | Francisca de Paula de Jesus | 4 May 2013 | Baependi, Minas Gerais, Brazil | June 14 | |
5. | Luigi Novarese | 11 May 2013 | Rome, Italy | Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone | July 20 |
6. | Giuseppe Puglisi | 25 May 2013 | Palermo, Sicily, Italy | Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi | October 21 |
7. | Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska | 9 June 2013 | Kraków, Poland | Cardinal Angelo Amato | April 1 |
8. | Małgorzata Szewczyk | June 5 | |||
9. | Odoardo Focherini | 15 June 2013 | Carpi, Modena, Italy | June 6 | |
10. | Vladimir Ghika | 31 August 2013 | Bucharest, Romania | May 16 | |
10. | Antonio Franco | 2 September 2013 | Santa Lucia del Mela, Messina, Italy | September 2 | |
11. | Maria Bolognesi | 7 September 2013 | Rovigo, Italy | January 30 | |
12. | José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero 1 | 14 September 2013 | Córdoba, Argentina | January 26 | |
13. | Tommaso da Olera | 21 September 2013 | Bergamo, Italy | May 3 | |
14. | Miroslav Bulešić | 28 September 2013 | Istria, Croatia | August 24 | |
15. | Rolando Rivi | 5 October 2013 | Modena, Italy | May 29 | |
16. | 522 Spanish Martyrs | 13 October 2013 | Tarragona, Spain | November 6 | |
17. | István Sándor | 19 October 2013 | Budapest, Hungary | June 8 | |
18. | Maria Theresia Bonzel | 10 November 2013 | Paderborn, Germany | February 6 |
No. | Name | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification | Presided by | Feast Day |
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1. | Teresio Olivelli | 3 February 2018 | Vigevano, Italy | Cardinal Angelo Amato | January 16 |
2. | Lucien Botovasoa | 15 April 2018 | Vohipeno, Madagascar | Cardinal Maurice Piat | April 14 |
3. | Hanna Helena Chrzanowska | 28 April 2018 | Kraków, Poland | Cardinal Angelo Amato | April 29 |
4. | János Brenner | 1 May 2018 | Szombathely, Hungary | December 15 | |
5. | Clara Fey | 5 May 2018 | Aachen, Germany | May 8 | |
6. | Leonella Sgorbati | 26 May 2018 | Piacenza, Italy | September 17 | |
7. | Maria Gargani | 2 June 2018 | Naples, Italy | May 24 | |
8. | Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon | 10 June 2018 | Agen, France | January 10 | |
9. | Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez | 16 June 2018 | Caracas, Venezuela | May 9 | |
10. | María Guggiari Echeverría | 23 June 2018 | Barrio Obrero, Asunción, Paraguay | April 28 | |
11. | Anna Kolesárová | 1 September 2018 | Košice, Slovakia | Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu | November 20 (Archdiocese of Košice) November 22 |
12. | Alphonse-Marie Eppinger | 9 September 2018 | Strasbourg, France | September 9 | |
13. | Veronica Antal | 22 September 2018 | Nisiporești, Romania | August 24 | |
14. | Jean-Baptiste Fouque | 30 September 2018 | Marseille, France | December 5 | |
15. | Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz | 20 October 2018 | Málaga, Spain | July 18 | |
16. | Marcello Maruzzo | 27 October 2018 | Izabal, Guatemala | July 1 | |
17. | Luis Navarro | ||||
18. | Clelia Merloni | 3 November 2018 | Rome, Italy | November 20 | |
18. | Michał Giedroyć | 7 November 2018 | Vatican City (equipollent beatification) | Pope Francis | May 4 |
19. | Teodoro Illera del Olmo & 15 Companions | 10 November 2018 | Barcelona, Spain | Giovanni Angelo Becciu | November 6 |
20. | Pierre Claverie & 18 Companions | 8 December 2018 | Oran, Algeria | August 1 (Claverie) May 8 (18 other martyrs) |
No. | Name | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification | Presided by | Feast Day |
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1. | Maria Velotti | 26 September 2020 | Naples, Italy | Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe | September 2 |
2. | Olinto Marella | 4 October 2020 | Bologna, Italy | Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi | September 6 |
3. | Carlo Acutis 5 | 10 October 2020 | Assisi, Italy | Cardinal Agostino Vallini | October 12 |
4. | Michael Joseph McGivney | 31 October 2020 | Hartford, Connecticut, United States | Cardinal Joseph Tobin | August 13 |
5. | Joan Roig i Diggle | 7 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain | Cardinal Juan José Omella | September 11 |
No. | Name | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification | Presided by | Feast Day |
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1. | Henri-Mathieu Planchat & 4 Companions | 22 April 2023 | Paris, France | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro | May 26 |
2. | Maria Concepción Barrecheguren García | 6 May 2023 | Granada, Spain | May 13 | |
3. | Jacinto Vera | Montevideo, Uruguay | Cardinal Paulo Cezar Costa | May 6 | |
4. | Elisabetta Martinez | 25 June 2023 | Lecce, Italy | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro | February 8 |
5. | Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children | 10 September 2023 | Markowa, Poland | July 7 | |
6. | Giuseppe Beotti | 30 September 2023 | Piacenza, Italy | July 20 | |
7. | Manuel González-Serna Rodríguez & 19 Companions | 18 November 2023 | Seville, Spain | November 6 | |
8. | Eduardo Francisco Pironio | 16 December 2023 | Luján, Argentina | Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga | February 4 |
No. | Name | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification | Presided by | Feast Day |
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1. | Guy de Montpellier | 18 May 2024 | Vatican City (equipollent beatification) | Pope Francis | February 7 |
2. | Giuseppe Rossi | 26 May 2024 | Novara, Italy | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro | February 26 |
3. | Michał Rapacz | 15 June 2024 | Kraków, Poland | May 12 | |
4. | Esţfān al-Dwayhī | 2 August 2024 | Bkerké, Lebanon | May 3 | |
5. | Luigi Carrara & 3 Companions | 18 August 2024 | Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo | Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu | November 28 |
6. | Ján Havlík | 31 August 2024 | Šaštín-Stráže, Slovakia | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro | February 12 |
7. | Moisés Lira Serafín | 14 September 2024 | Mexico City, Mexico | June 25 | |
8. | Ana de Jesús | 29 September 2024 | Brussels, Belgium | Pope Francis | November 25 |
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