sentences:  His beatification was celebrated in Palermo on 21 April 2007 after Pope Benedict XVI approved the fact that the priest had been killed "in odium fidei" – in hatred of the faith.Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi presided over the celebration on the behalf of the pope.Francesco Spoto was born in Raffadali in mid-1924 and he was baptized on 24 September 1924.