Editing Pope Clement X (section)

===Canonizations and beatifications===
On 12 April 1671, Clement X canonised five new saints:
* [[Saint Gaetan of Thiene]], founder of the Clerks of Divine Providence, better known by their other title of [[Theatines]].
* [[Saint Francis Borgia]], fourth [[Duke of Gandia]], [[Marquisate of Lombay|Marquis of Lombay]], and viceroy of [[Catalonia]], born in 1510. He took the habit of the [[Jesuits]] in 1547, and became [[Superior General of the Society of Jesus|general]] and one of the most illustrious ornaments of that religious order.
* [[Saint Philip Benizi]], a noble [[Florence|Florentine]], a religious of the order of the [[Servants of Mary]], of which he was the reviver, and not, as has been stated by some, the founder. [[Pope Leo X]] (1513–21) had beatified him in 1516.
* [[Saint Louis Beltran]], or Bertrand, a Spaniard, of the family of [[Saint Vincent Ferrer]], and like him a [[Dominican order|Dominican]].
* [[Saint Rose of Lima]], of the third order of [[Saint Dominic]], born at [[Lima]], [[Peru]] in 1586. Saint Rose, beatified by [[Clement IX]], was the first American saint of the Americas.
* [[Ferdinand III of Castile|Fernando III]] called El Santo (the Saint), (1198/1199&nbsp;– 30 May 1252) was a king of Castile (1217–1252) and Leon (1230–1252). He was the son of [[Alfonso IX]] and [[Berengaria of Castile]], daughter of [[Alfonso VIII]]. In 1231 he united [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]] and [[Kingdom of León|León]] permanently.  Fernando was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671. Several places named ''[[San Fernando (disambiguation)|San Fernando]]'' were founded across the [[Spanish Empire]].

In 1673, he had [[Pope Leo III]]'s name entered in the [[Roman Martyrology]].<ref name="Baring-Gould1874">{{cite book|last=Baring-Gould|first=Sabine|title=The Lives of the Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYZCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156|access-date=24 April 2018|year=1874|publisher=J. Hodges|page=156}}</ref>

He [[beatification|beatified]] [[Pope Pius V]] (1566–72), [[Francis Solano]], and [[John of the Cross]], all subsequently [[canonized]] by Clement XI and [[Pope Benedict XIII]] (1724–30). Clement X also declared [[Venerable]] one of the famous [[Spanish mystics]], Sister [[María de Ágreda|María de Jesús de Ágreda]].

Clement X, on 24 November 1673, beatified nineteen [[Martyrs of Gorkum]], who had been taken prisoner at [[Gorinchem|Gorcum]], the [[Netherlands]], and put to death in [[Brielle]] on 9 July 1572, in hatred of the Catholic faith, of the primacy of the Pope, and of the Roman Church. Of the nineteen Gorcum martyrs, Peter Ascanius (''Peter of Assche'') and Cornelius Vican (''Cornelius van Wijk'') were laymen; eleven were [[Franciscan]] priests; one a Dominican, two [[Premonstratensian]]s, one a [[regular canon]] of [[Augustine of Hippo|Saint Augustine]], and four were secular  priests.

On 13 January 1672, Clement X regulated the formalities to be observed in removing the [[relic]]s of saints from sacred cemeteries. No one was to remove such relics without the permission of the [[cardinal-vicar]]. They were not to be exposed for the veneration of the faithful unless previously examined by the same cardinal. The principal relics of the martyr&nbsp;– that is to say, the head, the legs, the arms, and the part in which they suffered&nbsp;– were to be exposed only in the churches, and they were not to be given to private persons, but only to princes and high prelates; and even to them but rarely, lest the too great profusion should deprive relics of the respect which they ought to inspire. The Pope decreed severe penalties against all who gave a relic any name but that given by the cardinal-vicar. The pain of [[excommunication]] was pronounced against all who should demand any sum whatever for sealed and authentic relics. These decrees, and others made by preceding Popes were confirmed by [[Pope Clement XI]] (1700–21) in 1704.

Clement X confirmed the exemptions granted by [[Pope Gregory XIII]] (1572–85) to the [[German College at Rome]] in 1671; and then, on 16 October 1672, he ordered the pupils to swear that at the close of their studies they would set out for [[Germany]] without a day's delay.