Tag: Canonisation
Pope Francis announces 2025 canonizations for Carlo Acutis, Pier Giorgio Frassati
Pope Francis announced Wednesday that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, two young Catholics beloved for their...
Martyrs of Damascus canonization a ‘sign of hope for Christians’
On the night of July 9, 1860, eleven men—eight Franciscan friars and three lay Maronites, known collectively as the eleven martyrs of...
Nigerian martyr Vivian Ogu on path toward canonization
The cause for canonization is advancing for fourteen-year-old Nigerian-born Catholic lay girl, Vivian Ogu, who was killed in Edo State in...
Lazarus Devasahayam: ‘A saint for new beginnings’
Devasahayam, who took the name ‘Lazarus’ in 1745, was first approved for sainthood in February 2020 for “enduring increasing hardships”...
Pope at Canonization: Like new saints, let’s live God’s dream joyfully
During the canonization Mass, Pope Francis proclaims ten new saints in St. Peter's Square. In his homily, he reminds the faithful to...
Kindly lights in gloomy world: Pope declares five new saints
Those canonised at the Mass were: St John Henry Newman, the British theologian, poet and cardinal who died in 1890; Brazilian St Maria Rita Lopes Pontes, popularly known as Sister Dulce, who died in 1992; Indian St Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan, founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family, who died in 1926; St Marguerite Bays, a Swiss laywoman and mystic, who died in 1879; and St Josephine Vannini, the Italian co-founder of the Daughters of St Camillus, who died in 1911.