| Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure, really. Like I said, I'm not expert. I was talking to my mum about this (she was raised Catholic) and remembered that I skipped right over the beatification period.
Anyway, I looked it up on wikipedia. And, inasmuch as you can trust that site, exhumation is standard procedure (to make sure no occult signs have developed around the body or some malarkey like that and to collect relics), but I'm assuming it's not obligatory.
What I "know" about canonization is from what I remember of the process with Mother Teresa and, again with the help of wikipedia, turns out I got most of that wrong, too. Canonization requires two "proven" miracles.
Beatification, the step before, which is where Mother Teresa is at, requires one "proven" miracle. And, at some point in there, I assume they exhume. __________________  Sunny
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