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• Vedic Archeology (A Vaishnava Perspective) (gosai.com)
• Good series of articles about Sri Krishna
Miscellaneous
• Shri Chaitanya Gaudiya Math - The bhakti tradition and Gaudiya Vaishnavism
(sreecgmath.org)
• The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (iskcon.com)
• Krishna Deity Gallery (vrindavan.com)
• Krishna - His life (krishna.avatara.org)
• Krishna 'Janmashtami' - The celebration of Krishna's birth (krishnajanmashtami.com)
• Article on the chronology of Krishna (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
• Devotional hymns and eulogies on Krishna (stutimandal.com)
• Shri Keshavji Gaudiya Math - The Raganuga (highest form of Prema Bhakti) tradition of
Gaudiya Vaishnavism (sevakunj.com)
Beatification as Initiation
Monday, March 31th, 2008
Beatification as Initiation / Rite of Passage
The beatification is a process that in the Catholic world proclaims an individual
blessed, proclaimed beatified. The previous and first consecration elevates the
relevant person to the rank of Servant of God, while by beatification the Servant of
God becomes blessed, and by canonization the blessed reaches the highest
status, status of the Saint. We can see that according to church canon an
individual passes through two statuses before reaching the last and the highest –
status of the Saint. Those procedures often take a long time and are subject to
strictly defined rules. The acts of beatification and canonization are performed by
the head of the Roman Catholic Church – the Pope.
In June 2003 the act of beatification of the Servant of God Ivan Merc took place in
Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina). During the religious service the Pope John
Paul II read the decree by which Ivan Merc was proclaimed Beatified.
Ivan Merc was a secular who dedicated his life to Catholic Church.
To be beatified a miracle must be performed by a Servant of God. The miracle in
the form of an inexplicable healing, attributed to Merc, happened to Anica
Ercegovic, a very religious peasant women from Croatia.
For years she fought unsuccessfully against, what was at that time, an incurable
disease until her visit to the grave of Ivan Merc in Zagreb. She came to the grave of
Merc in the hope of being cured. She said her prayer, kept silent and wept, and, as
Anica herself described in one of her letters, “From his grave I returned healthy!”
The procedure of beatification started in 1958 by the INFORMATIVE BISHOP’S
PROCESS FOR BEATIFICATION in Zagreb. Its beginning is the moment when texts
ascribed to Ivan Merc are submitted to the Bishop’s Council. This Council has
three members – bishop, notarius (notary) and advocatus diaboli (Devil’s