POPE TO CANONIZE FOUR BLESSEDS SUNDAY

VATICAN CITY, NOV 20, 2001 (VIS) - On Sunday, November 25, the Solemnity of Christ the King, at 9:30 a.m., the Pope will celebrate Mass in the Vatican Basilica during which he will canonize four blesseds.

The future saints are: Giuseppe Marello (1844-1895), bishop, founder of the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Joseph; Paula Montal Fornes de San Jose de Calasanz (1799-1889), virgin, foundress of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary, religious of the Pious Schools; Leonie Francoise de Sales Aviat (1844-1914), virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters Oblates of St. Francis de Sales; and Maria Crescentia Hoss (1682-1744), virgin, nun of the Third Order of St. Francis.

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