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.
Name
Date of Beatification
Place of Beatification
Feast Day
1.
Teodora Fracasso
18 March 2006
Bari , Italy
May 29
2.
Luigi Biraghi
30 April 2006
Milan , Italy
May 28
3.
Luigi Monza
September 29
4.
Thevarparampil Kunjachan
Ramapuram , Kerala , India
October 16
5.
Maria Teresa of St. Joseph
13 May 2006
Roermond , Limburg , Netherlands
October 30
6.
Maria Grazia Tarallo
14 May 2006
Naples , Italy
July 27
7.
Rita Lopes de Almeida
28 May 2006
Viseu , Portugal
September 24
8.
Eustáquio van Lieshout
15 June 2006
Belo Horizonte , Brazil
August 30
9.
Mosè Tovini
17 September 2006
Brescia , Italy
January 28
10.
Sára Salkaházi
Budapest , Hungary
December 27
11.
Maria Scrilli
8 October 2006
Fiesole , Italy
November 14
12.
María Pilar López de Maturana Ortiz de Zárate
22 October 2006
Bilbao , Spain
July 23
13.
Paul Joseph Nardini
Speyer , Germany
January 27
14.
Mariano de la Mata
5 November 2006
São Paulo , Brazil
April 5
15.
Euphrasia Eluvathingal 3
3 December 2006
Kerala , India
August 30
2007
No.
Name
Date of Beatification
Place of Beatification
Feast Day
1.
Luigi Boccardo
14 April 2007
Turin , Italy
June 9
2.
Costanza Starace
15 April 2007
Naples , Italy
September 5
3.
Francesco Spoto
21 April 2007
Palermo , Sicily , Italy
December 27
4.
Bruna Pellesi
29 April 2007
Rimini , Italy
December 1
5.
María del Carmen González-Ramos García-Prieto de Muñoz
6 May 2007
Málaga , Spain
November 9
6.
Carlo Liviero
27 May 2007
Città di Castello , Italy
July 7
7.
Basile Moreau
15 September 2007
Le Mans , France
January 20
8.
Jeanne-Germaine Castang
16 September 2007
Bordeaux , Gironde , France
May 30
9.
Stanislaus Papczyński 6
Licheń Stary , Poland
September 17
10.
Maria Merkert
30 September 2007
Nysa , Poland
November 14
11.
Albertina Berkenbrock
20 October 2007
Tubarão , Brazil
June 15
12.
Manuel Gómez González
21 October 2007
Frederico Westphalen , Brazil
May 21
13.
Adílio Daronch
14.
Franz Jägerstätter
26 October 2007
Linz , Austria
15.
Celine Borzecka
27 October 2007
Rome , Italy
October 26
16.
498 Spanish Martyrs
28 October 2007
Saint Peter's Square , Vatican City
November 6
17.
Ceferino Namuncurá
11 November 2007
Chimpay , Río Negro , Argentina
August 26
18.
Antonio Rosmini
18 November 2007
Novara , Italy
July 1
19.
Lindalva Justo de Oliveira
2 December 2007
Salvador , Bahia , Brazil
January 7
2008
No.
Name
Date of Beatification
Place of Beatification
Feast Day
1.
Giuseppina Nicoli
3 February 2008
Cagliari , Italy
February 3
2.
Maria Anna Donati
30 March 2008
Florence , Italy
March 18
3.
Candlemas of San José
27 April 2008
Caracas , Venezuela
February 1
4.
Caterina Sordini
3 May 2008
Rome , Italy
April 29
5.
Margaretha Flesch
4 May 2008
Trier , Germany
June 19
6.
Marta Anna Wiecka
24 May 2008
Lviv , Ukraine
May 30
7.
Giuseppina Catanea
1 June 2008
Naples , Italy
June 26
8.
Khalīl al-Haddād
22 June 2008
Beirut , Lebanon
9.
Hendrina Stenmanns
29 June 2008
Limburg , Netherlands
May 20
9.
Luigia Poloni
21 September 2008
Verona , Italy
November 11 September 10
10.
Michael Sopocko
28 September 2008
Białystok , Poland
February 15
11.
Francesco Bonifacio
4 October 2008
Trieste , Italy
September 11
12.
Francesco Pianzola
Vigevano , Pavia , Italy
June 4
13.
Louis Martin 5
19 October 2008
Lisieux , France
July 12
14.
Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin 5
15.
Petrus Kibe Kasui & 187 Companions
24 November 2008
Nagasaki , Japan
July 1
16.
José Olallo Valdés
29 November 2008
Camagüey , Cuba
March 7
2009
2010
No.
Name
Date of Beatification
Place of Beatification
Feast Day
1.
Josep Samsó Elías
23 January 2010
Barcelona , Spain
September 1
2.
Bernardo de Hoyos
18 April 2010
Valladolid , Spain
November 29
3.
Angelo Paoli
25 April 2010
Rome , Italy
January 20
4.
Josep Tous Soler
Barcelona , Spain
May 27
5.
Teresa Manganiello
22 May 2010
Benevento , Italy
November 4
6.
Maria Pierina
30 May 2010
Rome , Italy
July 26
7.
Jerzy Popiełuszko
6 June 2010
Warsaw , Poland
October 19
8.
Manuel Lozano Garrido
12 June 2010
Linares , Jaén , Spain
November 3
9.
Lojze Grozde
13 June 2010
Celje , Slovenia
May 27
10.
Stephen Nehmé
27 June 2010
Kfifan , Lebanon
August 30
11.
Leopold of Alpandeire
12 September 2010
Armilla , Spain
February 9
12.
María de la Purísima Salvat Romero 5
18 September 2010
Seville , Spain
September 18
13.
John Henry Newman 8
19 September 2010
Birmingham , England
October 9
14.
Gerhard Hirschfelder
Münster , Germany
August 2
15.
Chiara Badano
25 September 2010
Rome , Italy
October 29
16.
Anna Maria Adorni Botti
3 October 2010
Parma , Italy
February 7
17.
Alfonsa Clerici
23 October 2010
Vercelli , Italy
January 14
18.
Szilárd Bogdánffy
30 October 2010
Oradea , Romania
October 3
19.
Barbara Maix
6 November 2010
Porto Alegre , Brazil
March 17
2011
No.
Name
Date of Beatification
Place of Beatification
Feast Day
1.
Pope John Paul II 2
1 May 2011
Saint Peter's Square , Vatican City
October 22
2.
Giustino Russolillo 9
7 May 2011
Naples , Italy
August 2
3.
Georg Häfner
15 May 2011
Würzburg , Germany
August 20
4.
Maria Clara of the Child Jesus
21 May 2011
Lisbon , Portugal
December 1
5.
Irmã Dulce Pontes 8
22 May 2011
Salvador , Bahia , Brazil
August 13
6.
Clotilde Micheli
28 May 2011
Faicchio , Benevento , Italy
March 24
7.
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza
5 June 2011
El Burgo de Osma , Soria , Spain
October 1
8.
Alojs Andritzki
13 June 2011
Dresden , Germany
February 3
9.
Marguerite Rutan
19 June 2011
Dax , Landes , France
June 26
10.
Johannes Prassek
25 June 2011
Lübeck , Germany
November 10
11.
Eduard Müller
12.
Hermann Lange
13.
Serafino Morazzone
26 June 2011
Milan , Italy
April 13
14.
Enrichetta Alfieri
November 23
15.
Clement Vismara
June 15
16.
János Scheffler
3 July 2011
Satu Mare , Romania
December 6
17.
Elena Aiello
14 September 2011
Cosenza , Italy
June 19
18.
Francesco Paleari
17 September 2011
Turin , Italy
May 7
19.
Maria Jula Ivanišević & 4 Companions
24 September 2011
Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina
December 15
20.
Antonia Maria Verna
2 October 2011
Ivrea , Turin , Italy
June 12
21.
Anna Maria Janer Anglarill
8 October 2011
Urgell , Lleida , Spain
January 11
22.
María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray
29 October 2011
Madrid , Spain
October 10
23.
Carl Lampert
13 November 2011
Dornbirn , Vorarlberg , Austria
November 13
24.
Francisco Esteban Lacal & 21 Companions
17 December 2011
Madrid , Spain
November 28
2012
No.
Name
Date of Beatification
Place of Beatification
Feast Day
1.
Hildegard Burjan
29 January 2012
Vienna , Austria
June 12
2.
Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa
21 April 2012
Mexico City , Mexico
July 22
3.
Giuseppe Toniolo
29 April 2012
Rome , Italy
October 7
4.
Pierre-Adrien Toulorge
Coutances , France
October 13
5.
Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux
27 May 2012
Vannes , Morbihan , France
March 4
6.
Alcide-Vital Lataste
3 June 2012
Besançon , France
September 5
7.
Cecilia Eusepi
17 June 2012
Nepi , Viterbo , Italy
October 1
8.
Mariano Arciero
24 June 2012
Terme , Italy
February 16
9.
Louis Brisson
22 September 2012
Troyes , France
February 2
10.
Gabriele Allegra
29 September 2012
Catania , Sicily , Italy
January 26
11.
Bedřich Bachstein & 13 Companions
13 October 2012
Prague , Czech Republic
February 15
12.
Gertrude Prosperi
10 November 2012
Perugia , Italy
September 12
13.
María Angélica Pérez
17 November 2012
Buenos Aires , Argentina
May 20
14.
Maria Troncatti 10
24 November 2012
Macas , Morona-Santiago , Ecuador
August 25
15.
Devasahayam Pillai 9
2 December 2012
Tamil Nadu , Nagercoil , India
January 14
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.
^10 To be canonized in 2025.
See also
Born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022
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