List of people beatified by Pope Benedict XVI

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Pope Benedict XVI beatified 870 people.[citation needed] 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

No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification
1. Marianne Cope1 May 14, 2005 Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
2. Ascensión Nicol Goñi
3. Władysław Findysz June 19, 2005 Warsaw, Poland
4. Ignacy Kłopotowski
5. Bronisław Markiewicz
6. Clemens August Graf von Galen October 9, 2005 Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
7. Ángela Ginard Martí October 29, 2005
8. Joseph Tàpies Sirvant & 6 Companions
9. Eurosia Fabris November 6, 2005 Vicenza, Italy
10. Charles de Foucauld9 November 13, 2005 Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
11. Maria Crocifissa Curcio
12. Maria Pia Mastena
13. Anacleto González Flores & 7 Companions November 20, 2005 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
14. José Trinidad Rangel Montaño & 2 Companions
15. José Sánchez del Río7
16. Darío Acosta Zurita

2006

No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification
1. Teodora Fracasso March 18, 2006 Bari, Italy
2. Luigi Biraghi April 30, 2006 Milan, Italy
3. Luigi Monza
4. Thevarparampil Kunjachan Ramapuram, Kerala, India
5. Maria Teresa of St. Joseph May 13, 2006 Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
6. Maria Grazia Tarallo May 14, 2006 Naples, Italy
7. Rita Lopes de Almeida May 28, 2006 Viseu, Portugal
8. Eustáquio van Lieshout June 15, 2006 Belo Horizonte, Brazil
9. Mosè Tovini September 17, 2006 Brescia, Italy
10. Sára Salkaházi Budapest, Hungary
11. Maria Scrilli October 8, 2006 Fiesole, Italy
12. María Pilar López de Maturana Ortiz de Zárate October 22, 2006 Bilbao, Spain
13. Paul Joseph Nardini Speyer, Germany
14. Mariano de la Mata November 5, 2006 São Paulo, Brazil
15. Euphrasia Eluvathingal3 December 3, 2006 Kerala, India

2007

No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification
1. Luigi Boccardo April 14, 2007 Turin, Italy
2. Costanza Starace April 15, 2007 Naples, Italy
3. Francesco Spoto April 21, 2007 Palermo, Sicily, Italy
4. Bruna Pellesi April 29, 2007 Rimini, Italy
5. María del Carmen González-Ramos García-Prieto de Muñoz May 6, 2007 Málaga, Spain
6. Carlo Liviero May 27, 2007 Città di Castello, Italy
7. Basile Moreau September 15, 2007 Le Mans, France
8. Jeanne-Germaine Castang September 16, 2007 Bordeaux, Gironde, France
9. Stanislaus Papczyński6 Licheń Stary, Poland
10. Maria Merkert September 30, 2007 Nysa, Poland
11. Albertina Berkenbrock October 20, 2007 Tubarão, Brazil
12. Manuel Gómez González October 21, 2007 Frederico Westphalen, Brazil
13. Adílio Daronch
14. Franz Jägerstätter October 26, 2007 Linz, Austria
15. Celine Borzecka October 27, 2007 Rome, Italy
16. 498 Spanish Martyrs October 28, 2007 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City
17. Ceferino Namuncurá November 11, 2007 Chimpay, Río Negro, Argentina
18. Antonio Rosmini November 18, 2007 Novara, Italy
19. Lindalva Justo de Oliveira December 2, 2007 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

2008

No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification
1. Giuseppina Nicoli February 3, 2008 Cagliari, Italy
2. Maria Anna Donati March 30, 2008 Florence, Italy
3. Candlemas of San José April 27, 2008 Caracas, Venezuela
4. Caterina Sordini May 3, 2008 Rome, Italy
5. Margaretha Flesch May 4, 2008 Trier, Germany
6. Marta Anna Wiecka May 24, 2008 Lviv, Ukraine
7. Giuseppina Catanea June 1, 2008 Naples, Italy
8. Khalīl al-Haddād June 22, 2008 Beirut, Lebanon
9. Hendrina Stenmanns June 29, 2008 Limburg, Netherlands
9. Luigia Poloni September 21, 2008 Verona, Italy
10. Michael Sopocko September 28, 2008 Białystok, Poland
11. Francesco Bonifacio October 4, 2008 Trieste, Italy
12. Francesco Pianzola Vigevano, Pavia, Italy
13. Louis Martin5 October 19, 2008 Lisieux, France
14. Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin5
15. Petrus Kibe Kasui & 187 Companions November 24, 2008 Nagasaki, Japan
16. José Olallo Valdés November 29, 2008 Camagüey, Cuba

2009

No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification
1. Raphaël Rafiringa June 7, 2009 Antananarivo, Madagascar
2. Émilie de Villeneuve4 July 5, 2009 Castres, France
3. Joseph Kugler October 4, 2009 Regensburg, Germany
4. Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás October 18, 2009 Toledo, Spain
5. Carlo Gnocchi October 25, 2009 Milan, Italy
6. Zoltán Meszlényi October 31, 2009 Budapest, Hungary
7. Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas4 November 22, 2009 Nazareth, Israel

2010

No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification
1. Josep Samsó Elías January 23, 2010 Barcelona, Spain
2. Bernardo de Hoyos April 18, 2010 Valladolid, Spain
3. Angelo Paoli April 25, 2010 Rome, Italy
4. Josep Tous Soler Barcelona, Spain
5. Teresa Manganiello May 22, 2010 Benevento, Italy
6. Maria Pierina May 30, 2010 Rome, Italy
7. Jerzy Popiełuszko June 6, 2010 Warsaw, Poland
8. Manuel Lozano Garrido June 12, 2010 Linares, Jaén, Spain
9. Lojze Grozde June 13, 2010 Celje, Slovenia
10. Stephen Nehmé June 27, 2010 Kfifan, Lebanon
11. Leopold of Alpandeire September 12, 2010 Armilla, Spain
12. María de la Purísima Salvat Romero5 September 18, 2010 Seville, Spain
13. John Henry Newman8 September 19, 2010 Birmingham, England
14. Gerhard Hirschfelder Münster, Germany
15. Chiara Badano September 25, 2010 Rome, Italy
16. Anna Maria Adorni Botti October 3, 2010 Parma, Italy
17. Alfonsa Clerici October 23, 2010 Vercelli, Italy
18. Szilárd Bogdánffy October 30, 2010 Oradea, Romania
19. Barbara Maix November 6, 2010 Porto Alegre, Brazil

2011

No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification
1. Pope John Paul II2 May 1, 2011 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City
2. Giustino Russolillo9 May 7, 2011 Naples, Italy
3. Georg Häfner May 15, 2011 Würzburg, Germany
4. Maria Clara of the Child Jesus May 21, 2011 Lisbon, Portugal
5. Irmã Dulce Pontes8 May 22, 2011 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
6. Clotilde Micheli May 28, 2011 Faicchio, Benevento, Italy
7. Juan de Palafox y Mendoza June 5, 2011 El Burgo de Osma, Soria, Spain
8. Alojs Andritzki June 13, 2011 Dresden, Germany
9. Marguerite Rutan June 19, 2011 Dax, Landes, France
10. Johannes Prassek June 25, 2011 Lübeck, Germany
11. Eduard Müller
12. Hermann Lange
13. Serafino Morazzone June 26, 2011 Milan, Italy
14. Enrichetta Alfieri
15. Clement Vismara
16. János Scheffler July 3, 2011 Satu Mare, Romania
17. Elena Aiello September 14, 2011 Cosenza, Italy
18. Francesco Paleari September 17, 2011 Turin, Italy
19. Maria Jula Ivanišević & 4 Companions September 24, 2011 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
20. Antonia Maria Verna October 2, 2011 Ivrea, Turin, Italy
21. Anna Maria Janer Anglarill October 8, 2011 Urgell, Lleida, Spain
22. María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray October 29, 2011 Madrid, Spain
23. Carl Lampert November 13, 2011 Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria
24. Francisco Esteban Lacal & 21 Companions December 17, 2011 Madrid, Spain

2012

No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification
1. Hildegard Burjan January 29, 2012 Vienna, Austria
2. Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa April 21, 2012 Mexico City, Mexico
3. Giuseppe Toniolo April 29, 2012 Rome, Italy
4. Pierre-Adrien Toulorge Coutances, France
5. Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux May 27, 2012 Vannes, Morbihan, France
6. Alcide-Vital Lataste June 3, 2012 Besançon, France
7. Cecilia Eusepi June 17, 2012 Nepi, Viterbo, Italy
8. Mariano Arciero June 24, 2012 Terme, Italy
9. Louis Brisson September 22, 2012 Troyes, France
10. Gabriele Allegra September 29, 2012 Catania, Sicily, Italy
11. Bedřich Bachstein & 13 Companions October 13, 2012 Prague, Czech Republic
12. Gertrude Prosperi November 10, 2012 Perugia, Italy
13. María Angélica Pérez November 17, 2012 Buenos Aires, Argentina
14. Maria Troncatti November 24, 2012 Macas, Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
15. Devasahayam Pillai9 December 2, 2012 Tamil Nadu, Nagercoil, India

Notes

^1 Later canonized on 21 October 2012.
^2 Later canonized on 27 April 2014.
^3 Later canonized on 23 November 2014.
^4 Later canonized on 17 May 2015.
^5 Later canonized on 18 October 2015.
^6 Later canonized on 5 June 2016.
^7 Later canonized on 16 October 2016.
^8 Later canonized on 13 October 2019.
^9 Later canonized on 15 May 2022.

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