CONSISTORY FOR CANONIZATIONS TO BE HELD MARCH 10

VATICAN CITY, MAR 6, 2000 (VIS) - On Friday, March 10, at 11:30 a.m., during the celebration of sext, the sixth hour, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, there will be an ordinary public consistory for the canonization of the following Blesseds:

Agostino Tchao, priest and other martyr Blesseds in China (17th-20th centuries); Cristobal Magellanes and 24 companions, priests and lay people, martyrs; Jose Maria de Yermo y Parres, priest, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Poor; Maria Giuseppa del Cuore di Gesu Sanchez de Guerra, foundress of the Institute of the Servants of Jesus; Catherine Marie Drexel, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People; Maria Faustina Kowalska, religious of the Institute of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.

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