Editing Pope Benedict XIII (section)

==Cause of beatification==
{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix = [[Servant of God]]
|name             = Benedict XIII
|birth_name       = Pietro Francesco Orsini
|birth_date       = 2 February 1649
|death_date       = 21 February 1730 (aged 81)
|feast_day        = 
|venerated_in     = 
|image            = Giuseppe Bazzani – Ritratto di papa Benedetto XIII.jpg
|caption          = Portrait by [[Giuseppe Bazzani]], {{circa|1725}}<!-- <br />([[Palazzo D'Arco, Mantua|Palazzo D'Arco]] in [[Mantua]]) -->
|birth_place      = [[Gravina in Puglia]], [[Kingdom of Naples]]
|death_place      = [[Apostolic Palace]], [[Rome]], [[Papal States]]
|titles           = [[Pope]]; [[Confessor]]
|attributes       = [[Papal vestments|Papal attire]]<br />[[Papal tiara]]<br />[[Religious habit|Dominican habit]]
|patronage        = [[Gravina in Puglia]]<br />[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benevento|Archdiocese of Benevento]]
}}
[[File:Statue of Pope Benedictus XIII - San Domenico - Palermo - Italy 2015.jpg|thumb|left|120px|Statue of Pope Benedict XIII in [[Palermo]]]]
The process for his beatification was opened in [[Tortona]] in 1755 under [[Pope Benedict XIV]] but it did not at all advance and so was stalled. On 21 February 1931, also in Tortona, the process was revitalized<ref name="index">{{cite book |title=Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum |date=January 1953 |publisher=Typis polyglottis vaticanis |page=33 |language=Latin}}</ref> but the presumed doubts about the morality of the late pontiff's [[Cardinal Secretary of State]], [[Niccolò Coscia]], caused its closing in 1940.

The process was reopened on 17 January 2004. The official diocesan process commenced in [[Rome]] in early 2012 and the official opening of that process was held in the [[Basilica of Saint John Lateran]], presided by [[Agostino Vallini]]. The diocesan phase for the beatification process concluded on 24 February 2017 at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran with Vallini celebrating the conclusion of the inquest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.farodiroma.it/2017/02/22/papa-orsini-verso-gli-altari-chiusa-le-fase-diocesana-della-causa-benedetto-xiii/|title=Papa Orsini verso gli altari. Chiusa la fase diocesana della causa di Benedetto XIII|date=22 February 2017|publisher=Faro di Roma|access-date=23 February 2017}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He now has the posthumous title of [[Servant of God]].

The current [[postulator]] of the cause is the Dominican priest Francesco Maria Ricci.<ref>{{cite web |title=ORSINI, O.P., Vincenzo Maria |url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1672.htm |access-date=22 January 2014 |archive-date=18 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118190419/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1672.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>