Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on behalf of individual
Pope John Paul I (1912–1978), beatified on 4 September 2022 by Pope Francis. He is the most recent pontiff to be beatified.
Pictured is Pope John Paul II. He beatified more people than all his predecessors had during the previous 400 years, and was himself beatified in 2011.
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and enter
Beatification
…Heaven and is capable of interceding on behalf of individuals who pray in their name, permitting a restricted, local form of public veneration. Unlike canonization, which most Catholic theologians hold to be a final and infallible act of the papal magisterium, beatification is generally regarded as a fallible and…
The canonization service of the Martyrs of Katyń [pl] at the Church of St. Sophia the Wisdom of God, Warsaw [pl] by Metropolitan Sawa of Poland, 16 September 2025
The canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Francis on 27 April 2014
Canonization of Elizabeth of Hungary in 1235, by Sándor Liezen-Mayer (1863)
Pope Pius II canonizes Catherine of Siena.