Benedict XVI approves ten canonisations

Benedict XVI approved the canonisation of ten new saints during an ordinary public Consistory which took place in the Clementine Hall of the Vaticans Apostolic Palace. Among those to be canonised are Belgian Fr Jozef Damian De Veuster who worked as a missionary among lepers in Honolulu in the second half of the 19th century. There is also a group of priests and religious sisters who founded congregations, including Dominican Fr Francisco Coll y Guitart from Catalonia and Carmelite Fr Nuno Alvares Pereira. New Italian saints include Don Arcangelo Tadini from Brescia, the hermit Bernardo Tolomei who founded the abbey of Monte Oliveto, Sr Gertrude Comensoli from Brescia and Sr Caterina Volpicelli from N ...

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