Pope Benedict XVI has named seven new saints,in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. Seven individuals were canonized by the Pontiff: Kateri Tekakwitha, Maria del Carmen, Pedro Calungsod, Jacques Berthieu, Mother Marianne Cope, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Anna Shaeffer .
Two of the new saints were Americans-Kateri Tekakwitha, the US's first Native American martyr, and Mother Marianne Cope, a Franciscan nun from the 19th century who took care of leprosy patients in Hawaii.It seemed as if a third saint, Pedro Calungsod, a Filipino teenage martyr from the 17th century, attracted the biggest crowd of all, with Rome 's large Filipino expat community turning out to welcome the country's second saint in flag-waving droves. |
| Kateri Tekakwitha's tapestry, the first American Indian to achieve sainthood, hangs from the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica as Pope Benedict XVI observes a ceremony of canonization on Sunday, 21 Oct 2012. During the ceremony Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian from the 17th century who lived most of her life in what is now upstate New York, was declared a saint by the Pontiff along with six others. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) |
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| The tapestry of Maria del Carmen, the Spanish founder of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching, hangs from the Vatican basilica of St. Peter as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a ceremony of canonization on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Maria was declared a saint by the pontiff along with six others during the ceremony. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) |
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| The tapestry of Pedro Calungsod, of the Philippines, hangs from St. Peter's Basilica is celebrating a canonization ceremony at the Vatican as Pope Benedict XVI, Sunday 21 October 2012. During the ceremony, Calungsod was declared a saint by the pontiff together with six others. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) |
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| Jacques Berthieu's tapestry, a French jesuit, hangs from St. Peter's Basilica is celebrating a canonization service at the Vatican as Pope Benedict XVI, Sunday 21 October 2012. The Pontiff along with six others proclaimed Berthieu a saint during the ceremony. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) |
Giovanni Battista Piamarta's Tapestry hangs from St. Peter's Basilica is celebrating a canonization service at the Vatican as Pope Benedict XVI, Sunday 21 October 2012.During the ceremony Piamarta, along with six others, declared a saint by the pontiff. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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| The tapestry of Mother Marianne Cope hangs from St. Peter's Basilica is celebrating a canonization service at the Vatican as Pope Benedict XVI, Sunday 21 October 2012. Mother Marianne was declared a saint by the pontiff along with six others during the ceremony. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) |
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| The tapestry of Anna Shaeffer, a German lay woman, hangs from St. Peter's Basilica is celebrating a canonization service at the Vatican as Pope Benedict XVI, Sunday 21 October 2012. Shaeffer was declared a saint by the pontiff along with six others during the ceremony. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) |
