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Pope Benedict XVI, in background at left, gestures to the faithful during a canonization ceremony at the Vatican Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. the pontiff gave the Roman Catholic church five new saints Sunday, including Father Damien, born as Jozef De Veuster in 1840, a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium who cared for leprosy victims on the Hawaiian island of Molokai from 1873 to 1889, when the disease killed him. The other new Saints are 19th century polish bishop Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski; Spanish faithful Francisco Coll y Guitart and Rafael Arniaz Baron, and Jeanne Jugan, a Frenchwoman described by Vatican Radio as an 'authentic Mother Teresa ahead of her time.'
The Holy Father delivered his homily in the various languages of the newly canonized saints.
2 posted on
10/11/2009 2:09:44 PM PDT by
NYer
( "One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
To: NYer
Wow ... what a mixed metaphor.
3 posted on
10/11/2009 2:10:19 PM PDT by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: NYer
Hawaii has it's first Saint. Father Damien who risked his life and died from leprosy dedicating his work to the Lepers of Kalaupapa Molokai. Several from here went to the ceremony at the Vatican. Big news in todays papers throughout all of Hawaii.
19 posted on
10/11/2009 2:47:57 PM PDT by
fish hawk
(Lord, help us to attain knowledge and the wisdom to apply it toward your ultimate will.)
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