Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the canonization Mass for seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 21. Among those canonized were two from North America — St. Kateri Tekakwitha, a Native American born in update New York who died in Canada in 1680, and St. Marianne Cope, who worked with leprosy patients on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Oct. 21, 2012) See SAINTS-MASS Oct. 21, 2012 and SAINTS-PILGRIMS to come.

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