Pope uses "equipollent beatification": Guy de Montpellier aleteia.org

With a Motu proprio called Fide Incensus, published on May 18, 2024, and bearing a signature of the same day from St. John Lateran (though Pope Francis was on a pastoral visit to Verona), the Argentine Pontiff grants an “equipollent beatification” of the 12th-century French religious Guy of Montpellier.

With the “equipollent” canonization or beatification (sometimes called “equivalent”), the recognition of a person as “blessed” or “saint” is done by a simple decree of the pope without the regular, lengthy process.

See more on this process here.

With the document, the Pope granted orders, congregations, and communities linked to the charism of Santo Spirito in Sassia a liturgical feast for Brother Guy de Montpellier (1160-1208), who founded the order of the Hospitallers of the Holy Spirit and the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit…

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