page_title: Franz Alexander Kern
section_title: Beatification
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Alexander Kern / Beatification
caption_attribution_description: This file was uploaded with Commonist. &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 90747 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata) Deutsch: Reliquienschrein des seligen Jakob Kern der Stiftskirche Geras, Niederösterreich
context_page_description: Franz Alexander Kern, also known by his religious name Jakob, was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Premonstratensians. Kern served as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian armed forces during World War I and suffered threatening injuries that impeded his health for the remainder of his life and which often hampered his studies. He fostered an intense devotion for the Eucharist - for which he was known - and was often found in constant Eucharistic Adoration.
  Kern was beatified on 21 June 1998 in Vienna during the apostolic visit of Pope John Paul II to Austria.
context_section_description: The formal request for the canonization cause to open was lodged with the Congregation for Rites in Rome on 15 November 1956 and the latter department allowed for it to open in Vienna where its metropolitan archbishop Franz König inaugurated the diocesan process on 18 March 1958 and oversaw its closure before his retirement in 1985.
  The formal introduction to the cause came on 2 July 1985 after Kern was titled as a Servant of God and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the official "nihil obstat" ('nothing against' to the cause). The C.C.S. later validated the diocesan process on 4 June 1993 and received the official Positio dossier not long after this in 1993. Theologians issued their approval to the cause on 17 February 1995 while the C.C.S. met and also voted in favor of the cause on 6 June 1995. Kern was proclaimed to be Venerable on 11 July 1985 after Pope John Paul II confirmed the fact that Kern had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue both cardinal and theological.
  The investigation for a miracle occurred in the diocese of its origin and received C.C.S. validation in Rome on 20 May 1994 before it was passed to a medical board on 4 July 1996 who approved the miracle. Theologians also approved it on 24 January 1997 and the cardinal and bishop members of the C.C.S. followed suit on 15 April 1997 before John Paul II issued his final approval to the miracle on 7 July 1997.
  John Paul II beatified Kern on 21 June 1998 on his apostolic visit to the Austrian nation.
  The current postulator assigned to the cause is the Rev. Gabriel Wolf.
caption: Relics.
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