On October 25, 1998, Galvão became the first Brazilian-born person to be beatified by the Vatican, having been declared "Venerable" a year earlier, on March 8, 1997. On May 11, 2007, he became the first Brazilian-born person canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, during Pope Benedict XVI's five-day visit to Brazil. The open-air ceremony, which lasted over two hours in the Campo de Marte Military Airport, near downtown São Paulo, drew 800,000 people, according to official estimates. Galvão was the first saint canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in a ceremony held outside the Vatican City. His proclamation as a saint came after the Catholic Church accepted that two miracles had taken place.