 Donders was beatified in mid-1982 in Saint Peter's Square.The miracle that led to that was the cure of a Dutch child from bone cancer back in 1929.Petrus Norbert Donders was born in Tilburg in the Netherlands on 27 October 1809 as the eldest of two children to Arnold Denis and Petronella van den Brekel Donders; he had a younger brother named Martin.