1. Beatification is the penultimate step before canonisation.

2. His canonisation in 1262 gave the cathedral the second most important shrine in the south-east after Becket's at Canterbury.

3. The problem is with the canonisation process.

4. Hence, the new image was done on the basis of Don Bosco's little biography of the boy Saint as well as eyewitness accounts gathered for the process of Canonisation .

5. But then he was a martyr, and they always move to canonisation faster that any other category of saint.

6. It condemned the saints as “evil-doing sinners” and said their canonisation was a “gross insult to the Chinese people's patriotic resistance against foreign aggression and oppression”.

7. But then he was a martyr, and they always move to canonisation faster than any other category of saint.

8. Boris Yeltsin, tall, handsome, with a shock of white hair, standing on a tank and speaking on Mr Gorbachev’s behalf, was an image made for canonisation.

9. St MacKillop has become a kind of religious celebrity in Australia, where there is great anticipation about her canonisation, says the BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Rome.