POPE Benedict XVI has announced the creation of 10 new saints in the coming year, the Vatican said.It said five - four Italian and one Portuguese - will be canonised, or established as saints, on April 26, with another five to follow on October 11.
Among the first group are Father Arcangelo Tadini (1846-1912), Sister Caterina Volpicelli (1839-1894), theologian Bernardo Tolomei (1272-1348) and Gertrude Caterina Comensoli, (1847-1903), all Italian.
The fifth is Carmelite monk Nuno de Santa Maria Alvares Pereira (1360-1431) of Portugal.
In the second group is Jeanne Jugan (1792-1879) of France who founded the order of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Alongside her will be Polish archbishop Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski (1822-1895), two Spanish monks - a Dominican, Francisco Coll y Guitart (1812-1875) and a Trappist, Rafael Arnaiz Baron (1911-1938), and Jozef Damian de Veuster (1840-1889) of Belgium.
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(Source: PRNC)