 Pope Pius VI confirmed that the late friar had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue and named him as Venerable on 21 January 1781.The three miracles that would have – in those times centuries back - led to his beatification never received approval so the cause seemed to stall despite even the order's 1908 effort at a General Chapter to revive it.But the impetus needed came in 1927 with the miraculous healing of a woman that was investigated on a diocesan level.