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==Confirmation of cult==<!-- This section is linked from [[Charlemagne]] -->

This procedure was followed in all cases of formal beatification in causes of both confessors and martyrs proposed in the ordinary way ("''per viam non cultus''"). Those proposed as coming under the definition of cases excepted ("''casus excepti''") by [[Pope Urban VIII]] were treated in another waydifferently. In such cases it mustproof beis provedrequired that an immemorial public veneration (for at least for 100 years before the promulgation, in 1640, of the decrees of [[Pope Urban VIII)]] had been paid the servant of God, whether as a confessor or martyr. Such cause was proposed under the title of "confirmation of veneration" ("''de confirmatione cultus''"); it was dealt withconsidered in an ordinary meeting of the Congregation of Rites. When the difficulties of the promotorPromotor of the Faith had been satisfied, a pontificalPontifical decree confirming the ''cultus'' was promulgated. Beatification of this kind was calleddenominated "equivalent" or "virtual".

==The Canonization of Confessors or Martyrs==