 Although recognition of sainthood by the Pope does not directly concern a fact of Divine revelation, nonetheless it must be "definitively held" by the faithful as "infallible" pursuant to, at the least, the Universal Magisterium of the Church, because it is a truth related to revelation by historical necessity.Regarding the Eastern Catholic Churches, individual "sui juris" churches have the right to "glorify" saints for their own jurisdictions, though this has rarely happened.Popes have several times permitted to the universal Church, without executing the ordinary judicial process of canonization described above, the veneration as a saint, the ""cultus"" of one long venerated as such locally.