Editing Pope Innocent XI (section)

==Death and beatification==
[[File: Saint Peter's Basilica (51).jpg|thumb|left|250px|The body of Innocent XI in St Peter's Basilica]]
[[File:Kép-XIIncepápa.jpg|thumb|right|190px|Statue of Innocent XI in [[Budapest]]]]

===Final days and death===
Innocent XI  is known to have suffered from [[Kidney stone disease|kidney stones]] since 1682 and in 1689 his health declined notably. In June that year he was confined to his bed. For reasons of ill health, he cancelled a consistory of cardinals convoked for 19 June for the examination of bishops and he also cancelled meetings on 21 June. The pope was suddenly assailed by a strong fever on 25 June and on 29 June he was unable to celebrate the solemn Mass for the [[Feast of Saints Peter and Paul]], deputing Cardinal [[Flavio Chigi (1631–1693)|Flavio Chigi]] to celebrate it in his place. The Pope's condition worsened on 2 July and his doctors were led to lance his left leg, which caused fluid release, and eventually to undertake an operation on his right leg on 31 July, and two more in the following two days.<ref name="CSUN">{{cite web|url=http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1689.html|title=Sede Vacante 1689|publisher=CSUN|access-date=29 December 2015}}</ref>

On 9 August he received the [[Viaticum]] since doctors were of the opinion that he had little time left to live. On 11 August he received in audience Cardinal Leandro Colloredo, who came  to remind him that the pope had been set to raise ten men to the cardinalate but the pope refused to do so despite the cardinal's insistence. On the morning of 12 August he lost the ability to speak and suffered from breathing difficulties.<ref name=CSUN/>

Innocent XI died on 12 August 1689 at 22:00 (Rome time)  Following his death, he was buried in [[St Peter's Basilica]] beneath his funeral monument near the Clementine Chapel, which his nephew, Prince [[Livio Odescalchi]], commissioned.<ref>''Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to Italy'' (1865) describes Innocent XI's tomb as being that of his Monument in St Peter's Basilica, which is near that of Pope Leo XI's monument and tomb. Francis Wey's ''Rome'' (1875) and S. Russell Forbes' ''Rambles in Rome: An Archaeological and Historical Guide'' (1882) also refer to Innocent XI's Monument as being his tomb.</ref><ref>Cevetello, Joseph F.X., "Blessed Innocent XI," ''Homiletic & Pastoral Review''. New York, NY: Joseph F. Wagner, Inc., 1957. Pp. 331–339.</ref> The monument, which was designed and sculpted by [[Pierre-Étienne Monnot]], features the pope seated upon the throne above a sarcophagus with a base-relief showing the liberation of Vienna from the Turks by [[John III Sobieski]], flanked by two allegorical figures representing Faith and Fortitude.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Monuments/InnocentXI/InnocentXI.htm/ |title=Monument to Bl. Innocent XI |publisher=SaintPetersBasilica.org |access-date=21 June 2011}}</ref><ref>Reardon, Wendy J. (2004), ''The Deaths of the Popes'', Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. P. 215.</ref>

In April 2011 the remains of Innocent XI were moved to make way for remains of the [[Beatification of Pope John Paul II|beatified John Paul II]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kerr|first=David|title=Pope Innocent XI's remains make way for John Paul II|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/22313/pope-innocent-xis-remains-make-way-for-john-paul-ii|access-date=2020-07-26|website=Catholic News Agency|language=en}}</ref>

===Beatification===
{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix = [[Beatification|Blessed]]
|name             = Innocent XI
|birth_name       = Benedetto Odescalchi
|birth_date       = 16 May 1611
|death_date       = 12 August 1689 (aged 78)
|feast_day        = [[12 August]]<br />[[13 August]] ([[Hungary]])
|venerated_in     = [[Catholic Church]]
|image            = Inocencius XI.jpg
|caption          = Portrait (1787).
|birth_place      = [[Como]], [[Lombardy]], [[Duchy of Milan]]
|death_place      = [[Apostolic Palace]], [[Rome]], [[Papal States]]
|titles           = [[Pope]]; [[Confessor]]
|attributes       = [[Papal vestments|Papal attire]]<br />[[Papal tiara]]<br />[[Camauro]]
|patronage        = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara|Diocese of Novara]]<br />[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Como|Diocese of Como]]<br />[[Bavarian Congregation]]
|beatified_date   = 7 October 1956
|beatified_place  = [[Saint Peter's Basilica]], [[Vatican City]]
|beatified_by     = [[Pope Pius XII]] }}
The process of Innocent XI's [[beatification]] was introduced in 1691 by [[Pope Innocent XII]]. His cause was formally opened on 23 June 1714 under [[Clement XI]],<ref name="index">{{cite book |title=Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum |date=January 1953 |publisher=Typis polyglottis vaticanis |page=99 |language=Latin}}</ref> granting him the title of [[Servant of God]], and continued under [[Clement XII]], but French influence and the accusation of [[Jansenism]] caused it to be suspended in 1744 by [[Pope Benedict XIV]]. In the 20th century, it was reintroduced; his writings were approved by theologians on 24 March 1945,<ref name="index"/> and [[Pope Pius XII]] proclaimed him [[venerable]] on 15 November 1955 and blessed on 7 October 1956.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint.php?n=330/ |title=Blessed Pope Innocent XI |publisher=Catholic News Agency |access-date=21 June 2011 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201131732/https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint.php?n=330%2F |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Following his beatification, his sarcophagus was placed under the Altar of St. Sebastian in the basilica's Chapel of St. Sebastian, where it remained until 8 April 2011 when it was moved to make way for the remains of [[Pope John Paul II]] to be relocated to the basilica from the grotto beneath St. Peter's in honor of his beatification and in order to make his resting place more accessible to the public.<ref name="Catholic News Agency">Kerr, David. {{Cite web|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/22313/pope-innocent-xis-remains-make-way-for-john-paul-ii |title=Pope Innocent XI's remains make way for John Paul II |publisher=Catholic News Agency |access-date=17 June 2011}}</ref> Innocent's body was transferred to the basilica's Altar of Transfiguration, which is located near the Clementine Chapel and the entombed remains of Pope [[Gregory the Great]] (590–604).<ref name="Catholic News Agency"/> The altar is also across from Innocent XI's monument, which was his original site of burial before his beatification.

The feast day assigned to Innocent XI is 12 August, the date of his death. In the Hungarian calendar, it is commemorated on August 13.

Popular revelations made in the novel ''[[Imprimatur (novel)|Imprimatur]]'' damaged Innocent XI's reputation and thus the planned canonisation of Benedetto Odescalchi was suspended indefinitely.<ref>''The Independent'', 13 May 2008 at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/a-papal-mystery-827008.html</ref>

It was believed that the canonization would have taken place in 2003 but the book's publication halted all plans to canonize Innocent XI.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.cultora.it/imprimatur/&prev=search|title=The return of Imprimatur in Italy: censorship is over?|publisher=Cultora|date=9 September 2015|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref>