Tuesday, May 11, 2004

POPE TO CANONIZE SIX BLESSEDS THIS SUNDAY


VATICAN CITY, MAY 11, 2004 (VIS) - On Sunday, May 16, Sixth Sunday in Easter,  the Holy Father will celebrate the Eucharist in St. Peter's Square and will canonize six blesseds.

  The future saints are: Luigi Orione (1872-1940), priest and founder of the Little Work of Divine Providence and of the Congregation of the Little Sisters, Missionaries of
Charity; Hannibal Maria di Francia (1851-1927), priest and founder of the Congregation of the Rogationist Fathers of the Heart of Jesus and of the Religious Daughters of Divine Zeal; Josep Manyanet y Vives (1833-1901), priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth; Nimatullah Al Hardini (1808-1858)), priest of the Lebanese Maronite Order; Paola Elisabetta (1816-1865), foundress of the Institute of Religious of the Holy Family; Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962), mother of a family.
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