miracle. The process closed on 20 October 2001 and was sent to Rome for additional evaluation; the process was approved and ratified on 4 October 2002. The Rome-based medical board met and approved the miracle on 14 October 2002 and passed it on to the consulting theologians who also approved the healing as a miracle on 28 June 2005. The C.C.S. approved it also on 16 October 2007 and passed it to Pope Benedict XVI on 17 December 2007 for his approval. The beatification was celebrated on 3 May 2008 in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome. Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presided over the celebration on the behalf of Benedict XVI. Other significant individuals - such as Cardinal Camillo Ruini - were in attendance. The current postulator assigned to the cause is the Conventual Franciscan Ernesto Piacentini. References External links Hagiography Circle Sisters of Perpetual Adoration 1770 births 1824 deaths 18th-century venerated Christians 18th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 19th-century venerated Christians 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns Beatifications by Pope Benedict XVI Founders of Catholic religious communities Italian beatified people People from Monte Argentario Members of the Third Order of Saint Francis Venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II