Beatifications
During Pope John Paul II’s Pontificate
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1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Margaret Ebner (cult confirmed)
April 29, 1979
Francis Coll, OP
Jacob Desiré Laval
October 14, 1979
Henry de Ossó y Cervelló
1980
June 22, 1980
Joseph de Anchieta
Brother Peter of St. Joseph Betancur
Bishop Francis de Montmorency-Laval
Kateri Tekakwitha
Marie of the Incarnation (Marie Guyart)
October 26, 1980
Father Luigi Orione
Bartholomew Longo
Maria Anna Sala
1981
February 18, 1981
16 Martyrs of Japan:
Lawrence Ruiz
Anthony González
Dominic Ibañez de Eriquicia
Francis Shoyemon
James Gorobiyoye
Jordan Ansalone
Lazarus of Kyoto
Luke Alonso
Marina of Omura
Mary-Magdalen of Nagasaki
Matthew Kohiyoye
Michael de Aozaraza
Michael Kurobioye
Thomas Rokuzayemon
Vincent Shiwozuka
William Courtet
October 4, 1981
Maria Repetto
Bishop Alanus de Solminihac
Richard Pampuri
Mary of St. Ignatius (Claudine Thévenet)
Luigi Scrosoppi of Udine
1982
May 23, 1982
Peter Donders
Marie Rose Durocher
Brother André Bessette
Maria Angela Astorch
Marie Anna Rivier
October 3, 1982
Fra Angelico
Marie of the Cross (Jeanne Jugan)
Salvatore of Cappadocia, OFM (Salvatore Lilli) and 7 Armenian Companions
November 5, 1982
Sister Angela of the Cross (Maria Guerrero y González)
1983
January 25, 1983
María Gabriella Sagheddu
May 15, 1983
Bishop Luigi Versiglia
Callisto Caravario
June 20, 1983
Ursula Ledóchowska
June 22, 1983
Father Raphael (Josef Kalinowski)
Brother Albert (Adam Chmielowski), TOR
October 30, 1983
Jacob Cusmano
Jeremiah of Valachia (John Kostistk)
Father Dominic of the Most Blessed Sacrament (Dominic Iturrate Zubero)
November 13, 1983
María of Jesus Crucified (María Bouardy)
1984
February 19, 1984
Father William Repin and 98 Companions (Martyrs of Avrillé during French Revolution)
John Baptist Mazzucconi
September 11, 1984
Marie-Leonie (Alodie Virginia Paradis)
September 30, 1984
Frederick Albert
Clemente Marchisio
Isidore of St. Joseph (Isidore de Loor)
Rafaela Ybarra
November 25, 1984
Joseph Manyanet y Vives
Daniel Brottier
Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity (Elizabeth Catez)
1985
February 1, 1985
Mercedes of Jesus (Mercedes Molina)
February 2, 1985
Anna of the Angels (Anna Monteagudo)
April 14, 1985
Pauline von Mallinckrodt
Maria Catherine of St. Rose (Constance Troiani)
June 23, 1985
Benedict Menni
Peter Friedhofen
August 15, 1985
Sister Maria Clementine (Anuarite Nengapete)
September 22, 1985
Virginia Centurione Bracelli
October 6, 1985
Diego Luis de San Vitores
Joseph Maria Rubio y Peralta
Francis Gárate
November 3, 1985
Titus Brandsma
November 17, 1985
Pius of St. Aloysius Gonzaga (Luigi Campidelli)
Maria Theresa of Jesus (Caroline Gerhardinger)
Rafqa Petra Ar-Rayès
1986
February 8, 1986
Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception (Anna Muttathupandatu)
Cyriac Elias Chavara
October 4, 1986
Anthony Chevrier
October 19, 1986
Teresa Maria of the Cross (Teresa Manetti)
1987
March 29, 1987
Martyrs of Guadalajara:
María Pilar of St. Francis Borgia (Jacoba García)
María of the Angels of St. Joseph (Marciana Valtierra Tordesillas)
Teresa of the Child Jesus and St. John of the Cross (Eusebia Garcia y Garcia)
Cardinal Marcellus Spinola y Maestre
Manuel Domingo y Sol
April 3, 1987
Sister Teresa of Jesus “de los Andes” (Juana Fernández Solar)
May 1, 1987
Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
May 3, 1987
Rupert Mayer
May 10, 1987
Peter Francis Jamet
Cardinal Andreas Carlo Ferrari
Benedicta Cambiagio Frassinello
Bishop Louis Moreau
June 10, 1987
Caroline Kózka
June 14, 1987
Bishop Michael Kozal
June 28, 1987
Archbishop George Matulaitis (Matulewicz)
October 4, 1987
Marcel Callo
Pierina Morosini
Antonia Mesina
November 1, 1987
Sister Blandina (Maria Magdalena Merten)
Ulricha (Francisca Nisch)
Brother Arnold (Jules Rèche)
November 22, 1987
George Haydock and 84 Companions, Martyrs of England, Scotland and Wales (1584–1689)
1988
April 17, 1988
John Calabria
Joseph Nascimbeni
April 24, 1988
Peter Bonilli
Gaspar Stangassinger
Father Francis Palau Y Quer
Savina Petrilli
September 3, 1988
Laura Vicuña
September 15, 1988
Joseph Gérard
September 25, 1988
Father Miguel Pro
Cardinal Joseph Benedetto Dusmet
Francis Fa’a di Bruno
Junipero Serra
Frederick Jansoone
Josepha Naval Girbés
October 16, 1988
Bernard Maria of Jesus (Cesare Silvestrelli)
Charles of St. Andrew (John Andrew Houben )
Honorat a Biala (Wenceslaus John Kozminski)
October 23, 1988
Bishop Nicolaus Stensen
November 20, 1988
Katharine Drexel
3 Missionary Martyrs of Ethiopia:
Father Liberatus Weiss
Father Samuel Marzorati
Father Michele Pio
1989
April 23, 1989
Father Martin of St. Nicholas Lumbreras
Father Melchior Sánchez
Mother Maria of Jesus the Good Shepherd (Frances Siedliska)
Maria Margaret (Marianna Rosa Caiani)
Marie Catherine of St. Augustine (Marie Catherine Simon de Longpré)
April 30, 1989
Victoria Rasoamanarivo
May 2, 1989
Brother Scubilion (Jean-Bernard Rousseau)
June 18, 1989
Elizabeth Rienzi
Bishop Anthony Lucci
October 1, 1989
Passionist Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War:
Father Niceforo of Jesus and Mary (Vicente Tejerina)
José Estalayo Garcia
Epifanio Sierra Conde
Fulgencio Calvo Sanchez
Abilio Ramos y Ramos
Zacarias Fernandez Crespo
Father Germano Perez Giminez
Father Felipe Valcabado Granada
Brother Anacario Benito Nozal
Brother Felipe Ruiz Fraile
Maruilio Macho Rodriguez
José Oses Sainz
Julio Mediavilla Concejero
José Ruiz Martínez
Laurino Proano Cuesta
Father Pedro Lergo Redondo
Brother Benito Solana Ruiz
Feliz Ugalde Iruzun
Father Juan Pedro Bengoa Aranguren
Brother Pablo Leoz Portillo
Father Ildefonso Garcia Nozal
Father Justiniano Cuesta Redondo
Enfracio de Celis Salinas
Tomas Cuartero Garcia
Honorino Carracedo Ramos
José Cuartero Garcia
Lorenzo Maria of St. Francis Xavier (Lorenzo Salvi)
Gertrude Caterina Comensoli
Frances Anne Carbonell
October 22, 1989
7 Martyrs from Thailand:
Philip Siphong
Sister Agnes Phila
Sister Lucia Khambang
Agatha Phutta
Cecilia Butsi
Bibiana Khampai
Maria Phon
Marie of Jesus (Marie Deluil-Martiny)
October 31, 1989
Joseph Baldo
1990
April 29, 1990
9 Martyrs of Astoria during Spanish Civil War:
Brother Cyrill Bertran (Juan Sanz Tejedor)
Father Innocencio Inmaculada (Manuel Canoura Aranu)
Adolf Seco Gutierrez
Andrew Martín Fernandez
Valdivieso Saez
Julian Alfonsus Andrés
Alfred Fernández Zapico
Joseph López López
Pius Bernabé Cano
Mercedes Prat y Prat
Brother James Hilarius (Emmanuel Barbal Cosan)
Filippo Rinaldi
May 6, 1990
Juan Diego
Three Child Martyrs (Cristopher, Anthony and John)
José Maria de Yermo y Parres
May 20, 1990
Pier George Frassati
October 7, 1990
Hannibal Maria Di Francia
Joseph Allamano
November 4, 1990
Marthe (Anna Le Bouteiller )
Louisa Montaignac de Chauvance
Maria of the Sacred Heart (Maria Schinina)
Elizabeth Vendramini
1991
April 21, 1991
Annunciata Cocchetti
Marie Thérèse of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Marie Thérèse Haze)
Chiara Bosatta de Pianello
June 2, 1991
Bishop Joseph Sebastian Pelczar
June 5, 1991
Boleslawa Maria Lament
June 9, 1991
Rafael Melchior Chyliński
July 6, 1991
John Duns Scotus (decree on cult)
July 14, 1991
Bishop Edward Joseph Rosaz
August 13, 1991
Angela Salawa
October 18, 1991
Sister Pauline of the Heart of Jesus in Agony (Pauline Amabilis Visenteiner)
October 27, 1991
Adolph Kolping
1992
May 17, 1992
Josephine Bakhita
Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer
June 21, 1992
Francis Spinelli
September 27, 1992
17 Irish Martyrs:
Archbishop Dermot O’Hurley
Bishop Patrick O’Healey, OFM
Father Conrad O’Rourke, OFM
Matthew Lambert
Robert Meyler
Edward Cheevers
Patrick Cavanaugh
Margaret Bermingham
Maurice McKenraghty
Brother Dominic Collins, SJ
Bishop Conor O’Devany, OFM
Patrick O’Loughbrain
Father Peter Higgins, OP
Bishop Terence Albert, OP
Father John Kearney, OFM
Father William Tirry, OSA
Francis Taylor
Rafael Arnáiz Barón
Nazaría Ignacia of St. Teresa of Jesus March Mesa
Mother Francisca Salesia (Leonia Aviat)
Maria of the Heart of Jesus (Maria Josefa Sancho de Guerra)
October 25, 1992
122 Martyrs of Spanish Civil War:
Braulius Maria Corres Díaz de Cerio
Frederick Rubio Alvarez and 69 Companions
Philip of Jesus Munárriz Azcona and 50 Companions
Narcisa of Jesus Martillo Morán
November 22, 1992
Christopher Magellánes and 24 companions, Mexican martyrs
María de Jesús Sacramentado (María Venegas de la Torre)
1993
March 20, 1993
Maria of St. Cecilia of Rome (Dina Belanger)
March 20, 1993
John Duns Scotus (cult solemnly recognized)
April 18, 1993
Mother Angela Maria (Sophia Camilla Truszkowska)
Father Louis of Casoria (Arcangelo Palmentieri)
Sister Maria Faustina (Helena Kowalska)
Paula of St. Joseph of Calasanz (Paula Montal)
April 18, 1993
Stanislaus Kazimierczyk (cult solemnly recognized)
May 16, 1993
Maurice Tornay
Marie Louise of Jesus (Marie-Louise Trichet)
Columba Joanna Gabriel Florida (Lucrezia Elena Cevoli)
September 26, 1993
Bishop Joseph Marello
October 10, 1993
Martyrs of Almeria, Spain:
Bishop Diego Ventaja Milán
Bishop Emmanuel Medina Olmos
Brother Emigio Rodríguez
Brother Amalio Mendoza
Brother Valerio Bernardo Martinez
Brother Evencio Ricardo Uyarra
Brother Teodomiro Joaquin Säiz
Brother Aurelio María Acebrón
Brother José Cecilio Gonzalez
Victoria Diez y Bustos de Molina
María Francesca of Jesus (Anna Maria Rubatto)
Pedro Poveda Castroverde
Maria Crucified (Elizabeth Maria Satellico)
1994
April 24, 1994
Isidore Bakanja
Elizabeth Canori Mora
Joanna Beretta Mola
October 16, 1994
Nicholas Roland
Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga
María Rafols
Petra of St. Joseph (Anna Petra Perez Florida)
Josephine Vannini
November 5, 1994
Magdalena Catherine Morano
November 20, 1994
Hyacinthe Marie Cormier
Marie Poussepin
Agnes of Jesus Galand de Langeac
Eugénie Joubert
Claudius Granzotto
1995
January 17, 1995
Peter ToRot
January 19, 1995
Mary of the Cross (Mary Helen MacKillop)
January 21, 1995
Joseph Vaz
January 29, 1995
Rafael Guízar Valencia
Modestino of Jesus and Mary (Dominic Mazzarella)
Genoveva Torres Morales
Grimoaldo (Ferdinand Santamaria)
April 30, 1995
Bishop John von Tschiderer von Gleifheim
May 7, 1995
Maria Helena Stollenwerk
Maria of St. Joseph (Laura Alvorado Cordozo)
Giuseppina Bonino
María Domenica Brun Barbantini
Augustine Roscelli
June 4, 1995
Damien de Veuster
October 1, 1995
Carlos Eraña Guruceta
Fidel Fuido
Jesús Hita
Dionysius Pamplona
Father Emmanuel Segura
Brother David Carlos
Father Enrico Canadell
Father Faustino Oteiza
Florentino Felipe
Father Matteas Cardona
Father Fracesco Carceller
Ignazio Casanovas
Father Carlo Navarro
Father José Ferrer
Father Juan Agramunt
Father Alfredo Parte
Father John Baptist Souzy and 63 Companions
Father Peter Ruiz de los Paños y Angel and 8 Companions
Mother Angela of St. Joseph (Francisca Martí) and 16 Companions
Vincente Vilar David
Bishop Anselm Polanco Fontecha
Father Felipe Ripoll Morata
Father Pietro Casani
October 29, 1995
Sister Maria Theresa (Anna Maria Catherine Scherer)
Sister María Bernarda Butler
Marguerite Bays
1996
March 17, 1996
Bishop Daniel Comboni
Archbishop Guido Maria Conforti
May 12, 1996
Cardinal Ildefonso Schuster, OSB
Father Filippo Smaldone
Father Gennaro Maria Sarnelli
Mother Candida Maria of Jesus (Juana Josepha Cipitria y Barriola)
Sister Maria Raffaella Cimatti
Mother María Antonia Bandrés y Elósegui
June 23, 1996
Father Bernard Lichtenburg
Father Karl Leisner
October 6, 1996
Vincent Lewoniuk and 12 Companions
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Sister María Anna Mogas Fontcuberta
Maria Marcellina Darowska
November 24, 1996
Father Otto Neururer
Father Jacob Gapp
Catherine Jarrige
1997
May 4, 1997
Bishop Florentino Asensio Barrosa
Sister María Encarnación (Vicenta Rosal)
Father Gaetano Catanoso
Father Enrico Rebuschini
Ceferino Giménez Malla (first gypsy beatified)
June 6, 1997
Maria Bernardina Jablonska
Sister Maria Karlowska
August 22, 1997
Frederick Ozanam
September 27, 1997
Father Bartholomew Maria Dal Monte
October 12, 1997
Father Elías del Socorro Nieves
Father Domenic Lentini
Father John Piamarta
Sister Mary of Jesus (Emilie Van der Linden d’Hooghvorst)
Mother Maria Teresa Fasce
November 9, 1997
Bishop John Baptist Scalabrini
Bishop Vilmos Apor
María Vicenta of St. Dorothy Chávez Orozco
1998
March 15, 1998
Bishop Vincent Eugene Bossilkov
María of Mt. Carmel (Carmen Francisca Rosa Sallés y Baranqueras)
Sister Brigida of Jesus Morello
March 22, 1998
Father Cyprian Tansi
May 10, 1998
Father Nimatullah Youssef Kassab al-Hardini
Visitation Order Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War:
Sister Maria Gabriela de Hinojosa Naveros
Sister Josefa María Barrera Izaguire
Sister Teresa María Cavestany y Anduaga
Sister María Angela Olaizola Garagarza
Sister María Engracia Lecuona Aramburu
Sister María Inés Zudaire Galdeano
Sister María Cecilia Cendoya Araquistain
Sister María Maravaillas de Jesus Pidal y Chico de Guzmán
Sister Maria Sagrario of St. Aloysius Gonzaga (Elvira Moragas Cantarero)
Sister Rita Dolores Pujatte Sánchez
Sister Frances of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Aldea Araujo)
May 23, 1998
Father Secondo Pollo
May 24, 1998
Father John Maria Boccardo
Teresa Grillo
Teresa Bracco
June 21, 1998
Father Jacob Kern
Sister Maria Restituta (Helena Kafka)
Father Anton Maria Schwartz
September 20, 1998
Giuseppe Tovini
October 3, 1998
Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac
October 25, 1998
Father Antõnio de Sant’Anna Galvão
Father Faustino Míguez
Father Zeferino Agostini
Mother Theodore (Anna Théresè Guérin)
1999
March 7, 1999
Vicente Soler and 6 Augustinian Recollect Companions
Father Manuel Martín Sierra
Father Nicolas Barré
Anna Schaeffer
May 2, 1999
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (Francisco Forgione)
June 7, 1999
Father Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski
June 13, 1999
Archbishop Antony Nowowiejski
Henricus Kaczorowski
Anicetus Koplinski
Maria Anna Biernacka and 104 Companions
Sister Regina Protmann
Edmund Bojanowski
September 19, 1999
Bishop Anton Martin Slomsek
October 3, 1999
Father Ferdinando Maria Baccilieri
Father Edward Maria Joannes Poppe
Father Arcangelo Tadini
Mariano da Roccacasale
Diego Oddi
Nicola da Gesturi
2000
March 5, 2000
André de Soveral
Ambrósio Francisco Ferro and 28 Companions
Nicolas Bunkerd Kitbamrung
Maria Stella Mardosewicz and 10 Companions
Pedro Calungsod
Andrew of Phú Yên
April 9, 2000
Father Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos
Father Francis Xavier Seelos
Sister Anna Rosa Gattorno
Sister Maria Elizabeth Hesselblad
Sister Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan
May 13, 2000
Jacinta and Francisco Marto of Fatima
September 3, 2000
Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti)
Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli)
Bishop Tommaso Reggio
Father William Joseph Chaminade
Columba Marmion
2001
March 11, 2001
Father José Aparicio Sanz and 232 Companions of the Spanish Civil War
April 29, 2001
Bishop Manuel Gonzalez Garcia
Marie-Anne Blondin
Caterina Volpicelli
Caterina Cittadini
Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodriguez Santiago
May 9, 2001
Father George Preca
Ignatius Falzon
Sister Maria Adeodata Pisani
June 27, 2001
28 Ukrainian Martyrs:
Mykola Carneckyj and 24 Companions
Bishop Teodor Romza
Father Omeljan Kovc
Josaphata Hordashevska
October 7, 2001
Bishop Ignatius Maloyan
Nicholas Gross
Father Alfonso Maria Fusco
Father Tommaso Maria Fusco
Emilie Tavernier Gamelin
Eugenia Picco
Maria Euthymia Uffin
October 21, 2001
Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi
Maria Corsini
November 4, 2001
Bishop Pavol Peter Gojdic
Father Metod Dominik Trcka
Bishop Giovanni Antonio Farina
Archbishop Bartolomeu Fernandes dos Mártires
Father Luigi Tezza
Paolo Manna
Gaetana Sterni
Maria Pilar Izquierdo Albero
2002
April 14, 2002
Father Gaetano Errico
Father Lodovico Pavoni
Father Luigi Variara
Sister Maria del Transito de Jesus Sacramentado
Bishop Artemide Zatti
Sister Maria Romero Meneses
May 26, 2002
Father Kamen Vitchev
Father Pavel Djidjov
Father Josaphat Chichkov
August 1, 2002
Juan Bautista
Jacinto de Los Angeles
August 18, 2002
Archbishop Sigmund Felinski
Father John Balicki
Father John Beyzym
Sister Santia Szymkowiak
October 20, 2002
Daudi Okelo
Jildo Irwa
Bishop Andrea Giacinto Longhin
Father Marcantonio Durando
Sister Mary of the Passion (Helene Marie de Chappotin de Neuville)
Sister Liduina Meneguzzi
2003
March 23, 2003
Father Pierre Bonhomme
Sister Dolores Rodriguez Sopena
Sister Maria Caridad Brader
Sister Juana Maria Condesa Lluch
Laszlo Batthyany-Strattmann
April 27, 2003
Father Giacomo Alberione
Father Marco d’Aviano
Maria Cristina Brando
Eugenia Ravasco
Maria Domenica Mantovani
Julia Salzano
June 6, 2003
Sister Marija of Jesus Crucified Petkovic
September 14, 2003
Bishop Vasyl Hopko
Sister Zdenka Schelingova
October 20, 2003
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
November 9, 2003
Juan Nepomuceno Zegri y Moreno
Valentin Paquay
Luigi Maria Monti
Bonifacia Rodriguez Castro
Rosalie Rendu
March 21, 2004
Luigi Talamoni
Matilde del Sagrado Corazon Tellez Robles
Piedad de la Cruz Ortiz Real
Maria Candida dell’Eucaristia
April 25, 2004
Augusto Czartoryski
Laura Montoya
Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala
Nemesia Valle
Eusebia Palomino Yenes
Alexandrina Maria da Costa
September 5, 2004
Father Pedro Tarres y Claret
Alberto Marvelli
Pina Suriano
October 3, 2004
Peter Vigne
Joseph-Marie Cassant
Anna Catherine Emmerick
Maria Ludovica De Angelis
Emperor Charles of Austria
From: John Paul II: A Light for the World, edited by Sister Mary Ann Walsh, RSM. © 2003 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Inc., Published by Sheed & Ward. All rights reserved. For more information on this publication, go to www.popebook.com