The global leader of the Roman Catholic church, Pope Francis, is reportedly set to declare about 35 new saints.
Pope Francis
It has been revealed that Pope Francis will declare 33 martyrs and
two others from Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Italy, as the Catholic
Church’s new saints on Sunday at a Canonization Mass in Rome’s St.
Peter’s Square.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, these people include 30
so-called “Martyrs of Natal”, including priests and lay people, who were
killed in 1645 in a wave of anti-Catholic persecution by Dutch
Calvinists in Natal, Brazil.
Another group of three indigenous martyrs from Mexico – Cristobal,
Antonio and Juan – known as the “Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala” will also be
canonized.
Aged between 12 and 13, the children were among the first
indigenous Catholics of Mexico who were killed between 1527 and 1529
for refusing to renounce their faith and return to their ancient
traditions.
Among the new saints will also be two European priests. One of
them is Spanish Piarist Father, Manuel González, the founder of the
Daughters of the Divine Shepherdess, or the Calasanzian Institute.
He died in 1925. The other is Italian Cappuchin priest, Angelo da Acri, who died in 1739.
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