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postulator

NOUN
  1. (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization
  2. someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument

How To Use postulator In A Sentence

  • The Vatican named Father Mode as "postulator," or promoter of the cause, and a tribunal was established to interview witnesses to Father Capodanno's life. A Chaplain's Chaplain
  • He was a Mexican priest who had been appointed vice postulator of the Causes for the Beatification of the two young Fatima visionaries.
  • With expostulatory shakes of the head and indignant glances I called his attention to the fact that I was not alone. The Arrow of Gold
  • You have heard, my good Miss Byron, that the friendship between Mr. Grandison and Signor Je-ronymo was twice broken off: once it was, by the unkindly-taken freedom of the expostulatory letter. Sir Charles Grandison
  • The documents attested more than 400 miracles or extraordinary graces, and thirty postulatory letters from archbishops and bishops in France besought the beatification from the Holy See. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • A Vatican official, called a relator, works with the postulator to produce a positio, an extensive written statement, which is presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome.
  • As he must, the promoter deals with objections and reservations raised by the postulators and censors.
  • On EWTN, a programme recently appeared in relation to the forthcoming beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman, which was a conversation with Fr. Paul Chavasse, provost of the Birmingham Oratory and postulator of the cause. Fr. Paul Chavasse on the Beatification of Cardinal Newman and a Solemn Te Deum
  • And in harmony with many of the postulators, he points to Catherine as a figure in contrast with the church he now rules: ‘What did she understand by renewal and reform of the church?’
  • Numerous postulatory letters to this effect were addressed to his late Holiness of saintly and venerated memory, Pope Pius IX, who after the usual delay, permitted the preliminary steps towards the Beatification. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
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