An example is the Rosary of the Holy Wounds first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Venerable Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a Roman Catholic nun of the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France.

Venerable Mary Ward ( nun ) | Mary Ward, Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary | I. B. V. M.

Mary Ward was declared " Venerable " ( the first of three steps towards being declared a saint ) by the authority of Pope Benedict XVI on 19 December 2009.

It was founded in 1530 by three Italian noblemen: St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria ( S. Antonio Maria Zaccaria ), Venerable Barthalomew Ferrari ( Bartolomeo Ferrari ), and Venerable James Morigia ( Giacomo Antonio Morigia ), and approved by Pope Clement VII in the brief Vota per quae vos in 1533.

* Venerable Vincent Mary Pallotti-from the Catholic Encyclopedia

Binondo is also considered a historic centre of the mestizo de sangley community ; famous residents include St. Lorenzo Ruiz, the Filipino protomartyr, and Venerable Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, founder of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.

The Rosary of the Holy Wounds was first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Venerable Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a lay Roman Catholic Sister of the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France as a focus on the Holy Wounds of Jesus.

The body of María de Ágreda | Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, found to be incorrupt by the Catholic Church.

* Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda

Most prominent for spreading the Legion was the Irish legionary Venerable Edel Mary Quinn for her activities in Africa during the 1930s and 40s.

Mary was invested as a Commander of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem ( C. St. J .).

Venerable Mary Ward ( nun ) | Mary Ward, I. B. V. M., ( 1585 – 1645 ), who founded the order, Sisters of Loreto in 1609.

* The Venerable Ted Ward, Archdeacon of Sherborne and Chaplain of the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Park

* Bouchard I the Venerable ( 1005 ), also count of Vendôme, Corbeil, and Melun

Nikaya At one time in Savatthi, the venerable Radha seated himself and asked of the Blessed Lord Buddha: “ Anatta, anatta I hear said, Venerable.

* Pope John Paul I ( Venerable )

The Jain Agamas also contain explicit use of this term aside from referencing Mahavira: The Ten Lectures on the Religious Profession of a Layman describe Ananda, a disciple of Mahavira, stating, " Venerable sir, I believe in the doctrine of the Nigaṇṭhas ; I am convinced of the Nigaṇṭha doctrine.

* Sebastokratōr ( σεβαστοκράτωρ ) – " Venerable Ruler ": a title created by Alexios I Komnenos as a combination of autokratōr and sebastos ( see below ).

The process of his canonisation commenced during the Vatican I, which had granted him the title of « Venerable » in 1985.

Venerable Purāṇa is recorded as having said: " Your reverences, well chanted by the elders are the Dhamma and Vinaya, but in that way that I heard it in the Lord's presence, that I received it in his presence, in that same way will I bear it in mind.

Reformatting native religious and cultural activities and beliefs into a Christianized form was officially sanctioned ; preserved in the Venerable Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is a letter from Pope Gregory I to Mellitus, arguing that conversions were easier if people were allowed to retain the outward forms of their traditions, while claiming that the traditions were in honour of the Christian God, " to the end that, whilst some gratifications are outwardly permitted them, they may the more easily consent to the inward consolations of the grace of God ".

A particularly famous and often cited example is from the Venerable Bede, using both constructions within the same sentence: " Dico me scire et quod sum ignobilis " = " I say that I know ( accusative and infinitive ) and that I am unknown ( new construction )".

Astrolabe, the son of Abelard and Héloïse, is mentioned only once in their surviving correspondence, when Peter the Venerable writes to Heloise: " I will gladly do my best to obtain a prebend in one of the great churches for your Astrolabe, who is also ours for your sake ".

* I AM ( book ), a book by the Venerable Concepcion Cabrera de Armida

The Venerable William Way ( alias May, alias Flower ) ( died 1588 ) was an English Catholic priest and martyr executed under Elizabeth I after the Protestant Reformation.

I ask myself, Venerable Brothers, whether we should not humbly acknowledge before the whole world that, toward their Jewish brethren, Christians have all too often not shown themselves as true Christians, as faithful followers of Christ.

Bede the Venerable, who was the first writer to identify a year as before Christ, used the Latin ante incarnationis dominicae tempus ( before the time of the Incarnation of the Lord ) in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( I. 2 ) in 731.

Upon presenting it, the pious princess Polyxena is said to have uttered a prophetic statement to the religious: " Venerable Fathers, I bring you my dearest possession.

On the very day that the parliamentary session began, another `` Infamous Libel '' appeared, entitled A Letter From The Facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe, At Bath, To The Venerable Nestor Ironside.

The Venerable Bede says in The Reckoning of Time that this month Eostur is the root of the word Easter.

Egbert had been a disciple of the Venerable Bede, who urged him to raise York to an archbishopric.

Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

A Venerable has as of yet no feast day, no churches may be built in his or her honor, and the church has made no statement on the person's probable or certain presence in heaven, but prayer cards and other materials may be printed to encourage the faithful to pray for a miracle wrought by his or her intercession as a sign of God's will that the person be canonized.

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

" ( The patient was sick, there was no known cure for the ailment, prayers were directed to the Venerable, the patient was cured, the cure was spontaneous, instantaneous, complete and lasting, and doctors cannot find any natural explanation.

Both the Vita Columbae and the Venerable Bede ( 672 / 673-735 ) record Columba's visit to Bridei.

At this point Athena led a procession accompanying them to their new abode, with the escort now addressing them as " Semnai " ( Venerable Ones ), as they will now be honored by the citizens of Athens and ensure the city's prosperity.

In the Eastern Orthodox scheme of hagiography, Ephrem is counted as a Venerable Father ( i. e., a sainted Monk ).

His feast day is celebrated on 28 January and on the Saturday of the Venerable Fathers ( Cheesefare Saturday ), which is the Saturday before the beginning of Great Lent.

He or she also upon installation automatically becomes a Knight or Dame of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

In Dante's Paradise ( X. 130 ), he is mentioned among theologians and Doctors of the Church alongside the Scot Richard of St. Victor and the Englishman Bede the Venerable.

It was founded by the Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, and named in honor of Christopher Columbus.

Northumberland's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was a monk and later Abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede.

The Venerable Pope Pius XII (; ), born Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli ( 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958 ), reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958.

Honorius personally reinvested Peter the Venerable as Abbot of Cluny.

The Venerable Bede writes of the pope's affectionate concern for the English Church.

Clement X also had declared Venerable one of the famous spanish mystics, Sister María de Jesús de Ágreda.

The only important British honours over which the Prime Minister does not have control are the Orders of the Garter, Thistle, and Merit ; the Royal Victorian Order ; and the Venerable Order of Saint John, which are all within the " personal gift " of the Sovereign.

Upon his accession he wrote to Peter the Venerable and the monks of Cluny, asking them to pray for him, while he was congratulated by Arnulf of Lisieux.

In the 20th century it was reintroduced, and Venerable Pope Pius XII ( 1939 – 58 ) announced his beatification on 7 October 1956.