Editing Pope Innocent XI (section)

===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>