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Pope to canonize Brazilian in May, four others in June, February 23, 2007

Reprinted here is a news article from the Catholic News Service (CNS ).

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI will canonize a Brazilian Franciscan during his May trip to Brazil and will declare four other new saints in June. During a prayer service in the Apostolic Palace Feb. 23, the pope set May 11 as the date for the canonization of Blessed Antonio Galvao, an 18th-century Franciscan and founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Conception of Divine Providence. The pope will be in Brazil May 9-13 to participate in the Latin American bishops' fifth general assembly; the papal schedule published by the Brazilian bishops in early February said the pope would celebrate a morning Mass May 11 at the Campo de Marte airfield in Sao Paolo.

Pope Benedict also announced the June 3 canonization at the Vatican of a Polish Franciscan, Blessed Simon of Lipnica; Blessed Charles Houben, a Dutch Passionist priest; Sister Marie -Eugenie Milleret de Brou, the French founder of the Religious of the Assumption; and a Maltese priest, Father George Preca, founder of the Society of Christian Doctrine.

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