Rules about sainthood

[Weejee]

The problem is, the longer you make the waiting period the fewer people who knew the candidate personally will be available for interview, and the rustier remaining people’s memories will be.

Maybe a good proposal would be to start the investigation almost immediately (after a reasonable grieving period, of course) but regardless of the investigation’s initial findings do not declare a person Venerable until a longer period of time has passed, maybe ten years.

Good idea! That way, the memories will still be fresh and yet the sainthood process itself will not be rash.