 The miracle needed for his beatification was investigated and received validation as being a process that fulfilled its duties on 2 December 1994.A decade later it moved to a medical board based in Rome who approved it on 11 March 2004; consulting theologians also approved it on 19 October 2004 and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints followed suit on 15 March 2005.The healing was approved as a legitimate miracle on 15 December 2005; Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presided over the beatification on 14 April 2007 on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI.