Pope Paul VI to be beatified October 19

(ANSA) - Vatican City, September 26 - Pope Paul VI will be beatified by Pope Francis at the end of the extraordinary synod of the family at a Mass in St Peter's Square at 10:30 on October 19, the Vatican said Friday.
    Paul VI, who was pope from 1963 until his death in 1978, got the go-ahead for beatification in May when the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints said that he performed a miracle by intervening in the inexplicable healing of an unborn child.
    Beatification is the half-way stage to sainthood.