Pope John Paul II beatification: live

11.30 Well things appear to be wrapping up at the Vatican, so I'll leave it to The Telegraph's own Nick Squires to sum up the event. His Twitter debut has held up to scrutiny, but for a more prosaic form of communication, that of the email, here he is: After six years of anticipation and arcane Vatican scrutiny, the late John Paul II has been beatified, in a lavish ceremony watched by an estimated one million Catholic pilgrims at the Vatican and millions more people around the world on television and the internet. A giant tapestry of the much-loved Polish pope was unveiled at the front of St Peter's Basilica, as a vial of his blood, encased in a silver reliquary, was presented to his successor, Benedict XVI, by two nuns Continue reading