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# the [[Papal bull|Pontifical Bull]] of Canonization,<ref name="Mira circa nos">{{cite web | author1 = pope Gregorius IS | url = http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Greg09/g9mira.htm | title = Translation of the Bulla "Mira circa nos" | language = en | year = 1228 | website = papalencyclicals.net| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180828173411/https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=5431 | archive-date = August 28, 2018 | url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="saint Thomas of Canterbury">{{cite web | url = https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:534ef22f-70e0-466d-83dc-2b7447ccce85 | title = Pope Alexander Bull of Canonization in honour of Thomas Beckett | date = 14 February 2015 | page = 1 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160114212829/https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:534ef22f-70e0-466d-83dc-2b7447ccce85 | archive-date = January 14, 2016 | url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="Joan of Arc">{{cite web | url = https://www.jehannedarc.org/french.html | title = Official pronunciation of Pope Pius XI, before Solemn Canonization in the Vatican Basilica| language = fr | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180828174104/https://www.jehannedarc.org/french.html | archive-date = August 28, 2018 | url-status = live}}</ref>

# and the [[Pontifical High Mass#Differences from ordinary Solemn Mass|Pontifical High Mass]] of Canonization (Beatification) celebrated in the [[Vatican Basilica]], during which the Pope officially proclaimed the martyr or the confessor to be Saint for the whole Catholic Church.<ref name="Catholic Encyclopedia">{{cite web | url = http://home.newadvent.org/cathen/02364b.htm | title = Lemma "Beatification and Canonization", in the Catholic Encyclopedia | language = en | website = newadvent.org | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170921122600/http://home.newadvent.org/cathen/02364b.htm | archive-date = September 21, 2017 | url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="Joan of Arc" />

The saint may have a [[Consecration#Christianity|church consecrated]] with his or hertheir name, or be prayed to as an [[intercession of saints|intercessor]] during a [[Votive Mass#Rulings|Votive Mass]].<ref name="Catholic Encyclopedia" />

==Beatification==

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* that these cardinals and consultors had to treat questions of ritual as well as processes of canonization and beatification.

To execute all this business there was but one weekly meeting (''congressus''), a kind of minor congregation in which only the cardinal prefect and the major officials voted; in it less important and practical questions were settled regarding rites as well as causes, and answers were given, and rescripts which the [[Pope]] afterwards verbally approved. The other meetings of the congregation (ordinary, rotal, and "upon virtues and miracles") might be as few as sixteen in the course of the year. Some other cause must therefore be found for the slow progress of causes of beatification or canonization than a lack of good will or activity on the part of the Congregation of Rites.<ref name=Catholic>{{Catholic|titlewstitle=Beatification and Canonization|inline=1}}</ref>

==Bibliography==