 This allowed for the postulation to compile the Positio - or dossier containing biographical details as well as attesting his virtues - and submit it to officials in Rome in 1995.However it was forced to pass the approval of a historical commission who had to ensure all was in order before the cause could proceed.On 12 April 2003 he was proclaimed to be Venerable after John Paul II acknowledged the fact that Boccardo had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue - both the cardinal and theological virtues.