Canonization

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Today’s feast day is for Satin Augustine Zhao Rong and his companions. My daily reader (Magnificat) states that in the year 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 Chinese Catholics and foreign missionaries. I understand that the path to canonization includes the demonstration of a miracle in that individual’s name. In cases like today’s feast, does that requirment still remain in effect?

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As I understand it, there is no such requirement for martyrs. If they were killed for their faith, they can be canonized without an intercessory miracle.
 
Moscati said:
As I understand it, there is no such requirement for martyrs. If they were killed for their faith, they can be canonized without an intercessory miracle.
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Where did you hear that? In the Congregation for the Causes of Saints’ 2007 document Sanctorum Mater (Instruction for Conducting Diocesan or Eparchal Inquiries in the Causes of Saints), I do not see any mention of such an exception. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place?

The canonization process has changed and developed over time. As it stands now, there is need for one confirmed miracle to be beatified and an additional confirmed miracle after the person is beatified in order to be canonized. Thus, any saint being canonized today has at least two confirmed miracles attributed to his or her intercession.
 
Joe_5859 said:
Where did you hear that? In the Congregation for the Causes of Saints’ 2007 document Sanctorum Mater (Instruction for Conducting Diocesan or Eparchal Inquiries in the Causes of Saints), I do not see any mention of such an exception. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place?

The canonization process has changed and developed over time. As it stands now, there is need for one confirmed miracle to be beatified and an additional confirmed miracle after the person is beatified in order to be canonized. Thus, any saint being canonized today has at least two confirmed miracles attributed to his or her intercession.
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I believe that the Pope, out of his own authority, has previously and may in the future canonize a saint without the requisite miracles. The rules he follows are of his own or a predecessor’s making but they do not necessarily bind the Pope, as does not the Code of Canon Law.
 
Moscati said:
As I understand it, there is no such requirement for martyrs. If they were killed for their faith, they can be canonized without an intercessory miracle.
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As I recall they can be beatified without a miracle, but must have one for canonization.
 
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