Who is the oldest Blessed? Just a question that ought to have a concrete answer and be a good example for how the process of canonization works for my Religious Ed. class:


Who has been declared blessed for the longest period of time without being canonized?
Who is the oldest person to have been declared blessed (died shortest after Christ)?


Bonus points if anyone knows who has been 'venerable' or 'servant of God' for the longest or is the oldest 

(Bonus points may be stored up and redeemed in Heaven, where neither moth nor worm may spoil them)
Wikipedia has an article entitled List of Blesseds in the Catholic Church. One can click on the heading of the column giving the date of beatification. Doing so, the earliest that shows up is Eutychius of Como, who died in 539; however, no specific date of beatification is given. The earliest date of beatification is 1259 for Bronislava of Poland.

The external references for the article are:


Catholic Online list of saints and blesseds
Patron Saints Index


Wikipedia also has an article entitled List of Venerable People. The person in that list with the earliest date of declaration is María de Ágreda, declared venerable in 1673.