POPE TO BEATIFY TEN SERVANTS OF GOD ON SUNDAY

VATICAN CITY, MAR 3, 1999 (VIS) - On Sunday March 7 at 9:30 a.m., John Paul II will celebrate Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and will proclaim ten Servants of God as Blesseds.

The names of the future Blesseds are: Vicente Soler and six companions from the Order of the Augustinian Recollects and Manuel Martin Sierra, priest, who were martyrs; Nicolas Barre of the Minim Fathers, priest, and founder of the Congregations of the Sisters of the Child Jesus (Saint Maur) and of the Sisters of the Child Jesus of Providence of Rouen; and Anna Schaeffer, lay woman.

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