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1944
Voluntary medical and spiritual service in the Typhus
barrack 17 from November on.
1945

Infection - died on February 22nd;
Burial of the urn in the Limburg Pallottine cemetery on
June 7th, the twentieth anniversary of his first Mass.
1990
At the Feast of All Saints the urn is transferred to the
bishop’s crypt of the cemetery.
2003
Bishop Franz Kamphaus of Limburg opens on May
22nd the Episcopal Inquiry for the beatification.
2007

Bishop Franz Kamphaus decides on January 23rd that
Surveying procedures and directs the files of the process
to Rome.
2018

Pope Francis authorizes the Congregation for the Caus-
es of Saints to promulgate the decree of beatification on
December 22nd
2019
Blessed Richard Henkes is beatified on September 15th
in St. George’s Cathedral in Limburg.
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