Editing Beatification (section)

== Practices under the popes ==
[[Pope John Paul II]] (1978–2005) markedly changed the previous Catholic practice of beatification. By October 2004, he had beatified 1,340 people, more than the sum of all of his predecessors since [[Pope Sixtus V]] (1585–1590), who established a beatification procedure similar to that used today.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

John Paul II's successor, [[Pope Benedict XVI]] (2005–2013), personally celebrated the Beatification [[Catholic mass|Mass]] for his predecessor at [[St. Peter's Basilica]], on the Second Sunday of [[Easter]], or [[Divine Mercy Sunday]], on 1 May 2011, an event that drew more than one million people.