receiving papal approval. The C.C.S. cardinal and bishop members voted and approved the cause in their meeting on 12 December 2017. Pope Francis confirmed his heroic virtue on 18 December 2017 and titled the late cardinal as Venerable. An investigation on a diocesan level was initiated on 27 March 2012 for an alleged miracle attributed to him which concluded its business on 28 May 2013; the process was validated on 10 October 2014. The documentation proceeded from that point to Rome for further evaluation, but this evaluation could only take place upon the declaration of his heroic virtue (this happened in 2017 allowing for the miracle to be further assessed). The medical experts in Rome approved the miracle on 29 November 2018 with theologians later confirming it as well as the cardinals and bishops comprising the Congregation on 24 September 2019. On 3 October 2019, the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints officially approved the miracle, the last step to his beatification after the Congregation's members themselves approved the miracle on 24 September. The beatification was scheduled to take place in Warsaw on 7 June 2020 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The beatification was re-scheduled and celebrated on 12 September 2021 with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro presiding on the Pope's behalf. See also Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops Bibliography Czaczkowska E., Kardynał Wyszyński, Świat Książki, Warszawa 2009, ; Micewski A., Kardynał Wyszyński. Prymas i mąż stanu, Éditions du Dialogue, Paris 1982, ; Romaniuk M.P., Prymas Wyszyński. Biografia i wybrane źródła, Gaudentinum, Gniezno 2001, ; Szeloch H., Rodzina wobec pomocniczości i dobra wspólnego w nauczaniu społecznym Stefana Kardynała Wyszyńskiego – Prymasa Polski, PWT Wrocław 1988. References Books Love and Social Justice: Reflections on Society, Arouca Press, 2021 External links Rooney, David M., Religion and nationalism in Soviet and East European politics, National Review; 11/7/1986. Virtual tour Gniezno Cathedral List of Primates of Poland |- |- 1901 births 1981 deaths People from Ostrów Mazowiecka County People from Łomża Governorate 20th-century Polish cardinals Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII Participants in the Second Vatican Council Archbishops of Gniezno Archbishops of Warsaw Warsaw Uprising insurgents Polish Servants of God Deaths from stomach cancer Burials at St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw 20th-century venerated Christians People detained by the Polish Ministry of Public Security Venerated Catholics by Pope Francis Beatifications by Pope Francis Deaths from cancer in Poland