List of people beatified by Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI beatified 871 people. The names listed below are from the Vatican 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.
2005
2006
No. | Blessed | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification |
1. | Elisha Fracasso of Saint Clement | 18 March 2006 | Bari, Italy |
2. | Luigi Biraghi | 30 April 2006 | Milan, Italy |
3. | Luigi Monza | 30 April 2006 | Milan, Italy |
4. | Thevarparampil Kunjachan | 30 April 2006 | Kerala, India |
5. | Maria Teresa of St. Joseph | 13 May 2006 | Roermond, Netherlands |
6. | Maria Grazia Tarallo | 14 May 2006 | Naples, Italy |
7. | Rita Amada de Jesus | 28 May 2006 | Viseu, Portugal |
8. | Eustáquio van Lieshout | 15 June 2006 | Minas Gerais, Brazil |
9. | Mosè Tovini | 17 September 2006 | Brescia, Italy |
10. | Sára Salkaházi | 17 September 2006 | Budapest, Hungary |
11. | Maria Teresa Scrilli | 8 October 2006 | Fiesole, Italy |
12. | Margarita María López de Maturana | 22 October 2006 | Bilbao, Spain |
13. | Paul Joseph Nardini | 22 October 2006 | Speyer, Germany |
14. | Mariano de la Mata | 5 November 2006 | São Paulo, Brazil |
15. | Euphrasia Eluvathingal | 3 December 2006 | Kerala, India |
2007
No. | Blessed | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification |
1. | Luigi Boccardo | 14 April 2007 | Turin, Italy |
2. | Costanza Starace | 15 April 2007 | Naples, Italy |
3. | Francesco Spoto | 21 April 2007 | Palermo, Italy |
4. | Bruna Pellesi | 29 April 2007 | Rimini, Italy |
5. | María del Carmen González-Ramos García-Prieto de Muñoz | 6 May 2007 | Málaga, Spain |
6. | Carlo Liviero | 27 May 2007 | Città di Castello, Italy |
7. | Basile Moreau | 15 September 2007 | Le Mans, France |
8. | Jeanne-Germaine Castang | 16 September 2007 | Bordeaux, France |
9. | Stanislaus Papczyński | 16 September 2007 | Licheń Stary, Poland |
10. | Maria Merkert | 30 September 2007 | Nysa, Poland |
11. | Albertina Berkenbrock | 20 October 2007 | Tubarão, Brazil |
12 | Manuel Gómez González | 21 October 2007 | Frederico Westphalen, Brazil |
13. | Adílio Daronch | 21 October 2007 | Frederico Westphalen, Brazil |
14. | Franz Jägerstätter | 26 October 2007 | Linz, Austria |
15. | Celine Borzecka | 27 October 2007 | Rome, Italy |
16. | 498 Spanish Martyrs | 28 October 2007 | Vatican City |
17. | Ceferino Namuncurá | 11 November 2007 | Río Negro, Argentina |
18. | Antonio Rosmini-Serbati | 18 November 2007 | Novara, Italy |
19. | Lindalva Justo de Oliveira | 2 December 2007 | São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil |
2008
No. | Blessed | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification |
1. | Giuseppina Nicoli | 3 February 2008 | Cagliari, Italy |
2. | Maria Anna Donati | 30 March 2008 | Florence, Italy |
3. | Candlemas of San José | 27 April 2008 | Caracas, Venezuela |
4. | Caterina Sordini | 3 May 2008 | Rome, Italy |
5. | Margaretha Flesch | 4 May 2008 | Trier, Germany |
6. | Marta Anna Wiecka | 24 May 2008 | Lviv, Ukraine |
7. | Giuseppina Catanea | 1 June 2008 | Naples, Italy |
8. | Khalīl al-Haddād | 22 June 2008 | Beirut, Lebanon |
9. | Josepha Hendrina Stenmanns | 29 June 2008 | Limburg, Netherlands |
10. | Luigia Poloni | 21 September 2008 | Verona, Italy |
11. | Michael Sopocko | 28 September 2008 | Białystok, Poland |
12. | Francesco Pianzola | 4 October 2008 | Pavia, Italy |
13. | Francesco Bonifacio | 4 October 2008 | Trieste, Italy |
14. | Louis Martin | 19 October 2008 | Lisieux, France |
15. | Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin | 19 October 2008 | Lisieux, France |
16. | Petrus Kibe Kasui and 187 companions | 24 November 2008 | Nagasaki, Japan |
17. | José Olallo Valdés | 29 November 2008 | Camagüey, Cuba |
2009
2010
No. | Blessed | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification |
1. | Josep Samsó Elias | 23 January 2010 | Barcelona, Spain |
2. | Bernardo de Hoyos | 18 April 2010 | Valladolid, Spain |
3. | Angelo Paoli | 25 April 2010 | Rome, Italy |
4. | Josep Tous Soler | 25 April 2010 | Barcelona, Spain |
5. | Teresa Manganiello | 22 May 2010 | Benevento, Italy |
6. | Maria Pierina | 30 May 2010 | Rome, Italy |
7. | Jerzy Popiełuszko | 6 June 2010 | Warsaw, Poland |
8. | Manuel Lozano Garrido | 12 June 2010 | Jaén, Spain |
9. | Lojze Grozde | 13 June 2010 | Celje, Slovenia |
10. | Stephen Nehmé | 27 June 2010 | Batroun, Lebanon |
11. | Leopold of Alpandeire | 12 September 2010 | Granada, Spain |
12. | María de la Purísima Salvat Romero | 18 September 2010 | Seville, Spain |
13. | John Henry Newman | 19 September 2010 | Birmingham, England |
14. | Gerhard Hirschfelder | 19 September 2010 | Münster, Germany |
15. | Chiara Badano | 25 September 2010 | Rome, Italy |
16. | Anna Maria Adorni Botti | 3 October 2010 | Parma, Italy |
17. | Alfonsa Clerici | 23 October 2010 | Vercelli, Italy |
18. | Szilárd Bogdánffy | 30 October 2010 | Oradea, Romania |
19. | Maria Bárbara Maix | 6 November 2010 | Porto Alegre, Brazil |
2011
No. | Blessed | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification |
1. | Pope John Paul II | 1 May 2011 | Vatican City |
2. | Justin Russolillo | 7 May 2011 | Naples, Italy |
3. | Georg Häfner | 15 May 2011 | Würzburg, Germany |
4. | Maria Clara Galvão Meixa de Moura Telles | 21 May 2011 | Lisbon, Portugal |
5. | Irmã Dulce Pontes | 22 May 2011 | Salvador da Bahia, Brazil |
6. | Clotilde Micheli | 28 May 2011 | Faicchio, Benevento, Italy |
7. | Juan de Palafox y Mendoza | 5 June 2011 | El Burgo de Osma, Spain |
8. | Alojs Andritzki | 13 June 2011 | Dresden, Germany |
9. | Marguerite Rutan | 19 June 2011 | Landes, France |
10. | Lübeck martyrs | 25 June 2011 | Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
11. | Serafino Morazzone | 26 June 2011 | Milan, Italy |
12. | Enrichetta Alfieri | 26 June 2011 | Milan, Italy |
13. | Clement Vismara | 26 June 2011 | Milan, Italy |
14. | János Scheffler | 3 July 2011 | Satu Mare, Romania |
15. | Elena Aiello | 14 September 2011 | Cosenza, Italy |
16. | Francesco Paleari | 17 September 2011 | Turin, Italy |
17. | Drina Martyrs | 24 September 2011 | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
18. | Antonia Maria Verna | 2 October 2011 | Ivrea, Turin, Italy |
19. | Anna Maria Janer Anglarill | 8 October 2011 | La Seu d'Urgell, Lleida, Spain |
20. | María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray | 29 October 2011 | Madrid, Spain |
21. | Carl Lampert | 13 November 2011 | Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria |
22. | Francisco Esteban Lacal and 21 Companions | 17 December 2011 | Madrid, Spain |
2012
No. | Blessed | Date of Beatification | Place of Beatification |
1. | Hildegard Burjan | 29 January 2012 | Vienna, Austria |
2. | Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa | 21 April 2012 | Mexico City, Mexico |
3. | Giuseppe Toniolo | 29 April 2012 | Rome, Italy |
4. | Pierre-Adrien Toulorge | 29 April 2012 | Coutances, France |
5. | Louise-Elisabeth de Lamoignon | 27 May 2012 | Morbihan, France |
6. | Jean-Joseph Lataste | 3 June 2012 | Besançon, France |
7. | Cecilia Eusepi | 17 June 2012 | Nepi, Italy |
8. | Mariano Arciero | 24 June 2012 | Terme, Italy |
9. | Louis Brisson | 22 September 2012 | Troyes, France |
10. | Gabriele Allegra | 29 September 2012 | Acireale, Italy |
11. | Bedřich Bachstein and 13 companions | 13 October 2012 | Prague, Czech Republic |
12. | Maria Luisa Prosperi | 10 November 2012 | Perugia, Italy |
13. | María Crescencia Pérez | 17 November 2012 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
14. | Maria Troncatti | 24 November 2012 | Morona Santiago, Ecuador |
15. | Devasahayam Pillai | 2 December 2012 | Kottar, India |
See also