Fr John Sullivan SJ is to be beatified in Dublin on May 13, it was reported this week.
The beatification, at the Jesuits' St Francis Xavier church in Gardiner Street, where Fr Sullivan is buried, will be the first ever held in Ireland.
A miracle attributed to Fr Sullivan was recognised by the Vatican last year. A Dubliner, Delia Farnham, had made a miraculous recovery from a neck tumour in 1954 after praying for his intercession.
Among the other healings attributed to him is one of Michael Collins, nephew of Michael Collins, founder of the Irish Free State in 1928, who was paralysed as a young boy but suddenly walked after Fr Sullivan touched his leg and prayed over him.
