On May 17, 2025 at 11:00 a.m., the Roman Catholic Church will solemnly beatify Archbishop Eduard Profittlich (www.profittlich.eu) during a Holy Mass celebrated on the Town Hall Square in Tallinn . Beatification is the first stage in the canonization of someone as a saint, according to Roman Catholic tradition. On this historic occasion, the brothers of the Dominican Order of Tallinn and the lay members of the Dominican Order of Fra Angelico will organize a public reading of the names of 22,601 men, women and children who died as victims of the communist regime in Estonia during the Soviet occupation in 1941–1981.
