POPE TO CANONIZE 27 MEXICAN BLESSEDS ON SUNDAY

VATICAN CITY, MAY 16, 2000 (VIS) - At 10 a.m. on Sunday May 21, fifth Sunday of Easter, the Holy Father will celebrate the Eucharist in St. Peter's Square and canonize 27 blesseds from Mexico.

The future saints are Cristobal Magallanes, priest, and 24 companions, priests and lay people, martyrs; Jose Maria de Yermo y Parres, priest, founder of the Congregation of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Poor; Maria de Jesus Sacramentado Venegas de la Torre, virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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