 He met Pope John Paul II on one occasion and the two embraced.Novarese died in 1984; his remains were interred in the Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio in Via Giulia in Rome.The beatification process launched in Frascati in a diocesan process that was inaugurated on 17 December 1998 and later concluded on 13 December 2003 - the Congregation for the Causes of Saints later validated this process in Rome on 26 November 2004.