St. John Paul II did an equipollent Beatification of John Duns Scotus in 1993. His Cause was only introduced in the 19th century and was only declared Venerable in 1991, two yeaes before his beatification. Franciscans had always commemorated him as a Blessed, even before the equipolent beatification, because devotion to him and his teaching had been widespread, particularily his doctrine on the Immaculate Conception, used by Blessed Pope Pius IX to formally declare the dogma. Hopefully one day he will be properly canonized.