Jeffrey Miller wrote: > > Speaking of saints, what IS the procession? I've got oodles of terms > floating in my head, like canonization, beautification, sainthood, etc..
Um, I think you mean 'beatification'. :-) I think it depends on which church is in question. For the Roman Catholic Church (of which I'm not a member), I think the sequence is beatification and then canonisation. The first results in personages that may be titled 'Blessed' or 'Venerable', and the latter is the promotion to the full-fledged 'Saint'. There may or may not be a couple of intermediate steps, and I'm not sure at which point investigation by Advocate is needed. FWIW, which is probably not much. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millenium hand and shrimp!"
