Confirmation of Cult
This procedure was followed in all cases of formal beatification in causes of both confessors and martyrs proposed in the ordinary way (per viam non cultus). Those proposed as coming under the definition of cases excepted (casus excepti) by Urban VIII were treated in another way. In such cases it must be proved that an immemorial public veneration (at least for 100 years before the promulgation, in 1640, of the decrees of Urban VIII) had been paid the servant of God, whether confessor or martyr. Such cause was proposed under the title of "confirmation of veneration" (de confirmatione cultus); it was dealt with in an ordinary meeting of the Congregation of Rites. When the difficulties of the promotor of the Faith had been satisfied, a pontifical decree confirming the cultus was promulgated. Beatification of this kind was called equivalent or virtual.
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