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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 differently. In such cases proof is required that an immemorial public veneration had been paid to the servant of God, whether as a confessor or martyr, for at least 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 considered in an ordinary meeting of the Congregation of Rites. When the difficulties of the Promotor of the Faith had been satisfied, a Pontifical decree confirming the ''cultus'' was promulgated. Beatification of this kind was denominated "equivalent" or "virtual".

==Canonization==