Its first public ceremony was the beatification of San Isidro, the patron saint of the city.
The church process to certify a first miracle needed for John Paul's beatification went exceptionally fast.
Earlier in the day crowds cheered in Birmingham after the beatification, was carried out.
And, paying tribute to Cardinal Newman, the pontiff said the beatification was an "auspicious" day.
Today, his beatification causes barely a flicker: all attention is on child abuse and Vatican social teachings.
During the beatification, 242 faithful needed medical attention, Italy's La Repubblica website reported.
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Beatification, his so-called "sonambic" (a lambic from Sonoma County, get it?) is edgy and dry, with hints of grapefruit rind.
His cause for beatification was started by John Paul II, and he was the first person beatified by Pope Benedict.
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Controversially, the claim was formally recognised as a miracle by the Vatican last year, paving the way for Mother Teresa's beatification.
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Now Romero's beatification serves as a rebuke to charges by El Salvador's elites that that he was a subversive, a communist or a Marxist.
The fact that Pope Francis facilitated Romero's beatification is notable.
Pope Benedict has since called for a "period of deeper study and reflection" on the beatification process - widely seen as putting the process on hold.
The beatification of Pope John Paul II this weekend is a reminder of the role of that great Pole, and of his homeland, in toppling communism.
On his two day visit, he is to preside at a beatification ceremony for two Maltese priests and a nun who lived in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mr. Cilurzo releases Beatification "when it tastes right, " he said.
In normal circumstances five years must pass between the death of the person proposed for beatification and the start of the procedure, to avoid emotion playing a part.
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Some who lived then have said this happened, and Sir Donald's beatification as an inspirational force in time of trouble has been much paraded since his death this week.
That hope, or faith, brought 1m people to Onitsha in eastern Nigeria for the beatification of a little-known Nigerian priest who died in a monastery in Britain 34 years ago.
Before the beatification began, there were chaotic scenes as more and more pilgrims jostled to find a way into the square, says the BBC's Peter Gould, who was at the ceremony.
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Or that the beatification process has started for Latin Americans such as Father Rutilio Grande, whose killing inspired Romero's social justice work, and Bishop Enrique Angelelli, who died in a suspicious car crash in Argentina.
Dioceses in England and Wales have reported thousands of unfilled places for a vigil in London's Hyde Park on Saturday and a beatification Mass in Birmingham on Sunday for 19th Century cardinal John Henry Newman.
It has been reported Mr Brown suggested a visit could coincide with the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman - a famous British convert to Catholicism, who died in 1890 - expected within the next two years.
When a politician breaks the pattern and speaks the truth--normally in a crisis too sudden to permit the conducting of a public opinion poll--he gains instant beatification, as Rudy Giuliani and George W. Bush discovered after Sept. 11.
However the beatification of the sometimes controversial Pope has been put on hold by Pope Benedict for the time being, as he wants to create a positive atmosphere for his first visit to the Middle East, says our correspondent.
Although the purpose of the pope's visit was the beatification of Father Cyprian Iwene Tansi, papal officials leaked the information that he had given General Abacha a list of some 60 political detainees with a plea for their release.
He had all that was required for beatification in the sport: not just the nerveless charisma, the looks, and the easeful love of speed but, more important, a rival the Frenchman Alain Prost, dour by comparison, with whom Senna would clash wheels more than once.
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