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cost £10,000 WIDELY published reports of the high cost of canonisation were "simply ridiculous," said the head of the Holy See's Press office recently. Mgr. Fausto Vallain estimated the cost of beatification, the major step preliminary to canonisation, at between £8,000 and £10,000.
He said canonisation itself was less expensive because less investigation was involved. That would put the total cost of canonisation (including beatification) at under £16,000. Reports that canonisation costs about £40,000 have been published widely in the world's Press.
They followed closely a report from the Netherlands that the Dutch Carmelites had decided to discontinue the beatification process of Fr. Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite priest who was imprisoned by the Nazis for his defence of the freedom of the Press and died at Dachau in 1942.
According to this report, funds originally earmarked for the expenses of Fr. Bra ndsma 's beatification would be used to help peoples of underdeveloped countries.
'REPORT FALSE' Mgr. VaIlainc said the report that Fr. Brandsma's beatification process was being stopped was false, and that it arose from an unauthorised statement by an individual Carmelite. His estimate of the cost of beatification did not include costs involved in the investigation on a local level.
The cost of activities undertaken by the Congregation of Rites itself was less than £42. The rest was taken up by costs of printing documents, of medical investigations of reputed cures, and of the actual ceremonies of beatification or canonisation in St. Peter's.
This last cost could vary substantially, according to the sort of trimmings desired by those supporting the cause of beatification or canonisation.