Until then, the Church didn’t see any motive in the course of V. Scheppers’ life to declare him holy or beatify him. The initiatives that were taken since his death with a view of this beatification were diversified. They indeed led to taking care of all documents about V. Scheppers life and his worship.

In 1928 the beatification of V. Scheppers was asked for in Rome and in Mechelen the first investigations took place. After many years of silence the case was taken seriously again in 1964-1965.