POPE FRANCIS CANONIZES 800 SAINTS FROM FIFTEENTH CENTURY & FIRST SAINT OF COLOMBIA

As reported by the Daily Mail UK, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323410/Thousands-pack-St-Peters-Square-Pope-Francis-canonises-800-Italian-saints-slaughtered-refusing-convert-Islam.html#ixzz2TJH6Ni00?utm_source=June+2013&utm_campaign=June+Newsletter&utm_medium=email:

    Thousands pack St Peter's Square as Pope Francis 

canonizes 800 Italian saints who were slaughtered 

for refusing to convert to Islam.

    Nuns place relics of the new saints on the altar during a canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican:
                                               

• Pope Francis made the sainthoods in his first canonization ceremony today.
• The canonizations were approved by his predecessor Benedict XVI. 
• Vatican seemed at pains not to allow it to be interpreted as anti-Islamic.
• The first pontiff from South America also gave Colombia its first saint.
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