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==Recent developments==
==Recent developments==
The [[Second Vatican Council]] decreed: "The accounts of martyrdom or the lives of the saints are to accord with the facts of history."<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html [[Sacrosanctum Concilium]], 92 c]</ref> Years of study were required for determining reliable historical information which could be reasonably verified, after which a fully revised edition of the ''Roman Martyrology'' was issued in Latin (officially ''Martyrologium Romanum'') in 2001, followed in 2004 by a revision that corrected some typographical errors in the 2001 edition and added 117 people canonized or beatified between 2001 and 2004, as well as a considerable number of ancient saints not included in the previous edition.
The [[Second Vatican Council]] decreed: "The accounts of martyrdom or the lives of the saints are to accord with the facts of history."<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html Sacrosanctum Concilium, 92 c]</ref> Years of study were required for determining reliable historical information which could be reasonably verified, after which a fully revised edition of the ''Roman Martyrology'' was issued in Latin (officially ''Martyrologium Romanum'') in 2001, followed in 2004 by a revision that corrected some typographical errors in the 2001 edition and added 117 people canonized or beatified between 2001 and 2004, as well as a considerable number of ancient saints not included in the previous edition.
:"The updated Martyrology contains 7,000 saints and blesseds currently venerated by the Church, and whose cult is officially recognized and proposed to the faithful as models worthy of imitation."<ref>[http://www.adoremus.org/0205News.html#anchor303698 Adoremus Bulletin, February 2005]</ref>
:"The updated Martyrology contains 7,000 saints and blesseds currently venerated by the Church, and whose cult is officially recognized and proposed to the faithful as models worthy of imitation."<ref>[http://www.adoremus.org/0205News.html#anchor303698 Adoremus Bulletin, February 2005]</ref>