Pope Canonizes 2 Priests, Nun
Pope John Paul II created three more Roman Catholic saints, bringing to 283 the number of people he has canonized in his two-decade reign. At a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, the pope canonized Father Giovanni Calabria, an Italian priest who founded religious orders to help the poor before he died in 1954. The pope also canonized Marcellin Champagnat, a Frenchman who founded the Marist order of priests and died in 1840. The third person was Agostina Pietrantoni, an Italian nun who was killed in 1894 by a patient in the hospital where she worked near the Vatican.
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