page_title: Lindalva Justo de Oliveira
section_title: Beatification
hierarchical_section_title: Lindalva Justo de Oliveira / Beatification
caption_attribution_description: Português: Capela das Relíquias da Beata Lindalva
context_page_description: Lindalva Justo de Oliveira was a Brazilian Roman Catholic professed religious and a professed member of the Vincentian Sisters. Oliveira worked at a shelter where she was killed in 1993 after a man obsessed with her stabbed her 44 times when she refused his unwanted advances.
  Oliveira's beatification received the approval of Pope Benedict XVI who determined that she was killed "in defensum castitatis" - the defense of her vow for being chaste. She was beatified on 2 December 2007 in which Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presided over on the behalf of the pope.
context_section_description: The beatification process commenced in Brazil on 19 October 1999 - under Pope John Paul II - after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints declared "nihil obstat" ('nothing against') to the cause while also acknowledging her as a Servant of God. The diocesan process opened on 17 January 2000 and concluded its business not long after on 3 March 2001; the C.C.S. validated this process in Rome on 22 June 2001.
  The Positio was sent to the C.C.S. in 2002 at which point it was retained until theologians met and approved the cause in a meeting on 26 September 2006; the C.C.S. also granted their approval to the merits of the cause on 21 November 2006. On 16 December 2006 her beatification received the papal approval of Pope Benedict XVI who confirmed she was killed "in defensum casitatis".
  The beatification celebration was held in Brazil on 2 December 2007 and Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presided as the delegate the pontiff appointed in his stead.
caption: Tomb in 2015 in the chapel established in her honor.
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