Vatican City, Oct 19, 2025 (AFP) - Nuns, ex-Satanic priest among seven new saints created by Pope Leo

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2025-10-19

Bells rang out Sunday over St Peter's Square as Pope Leo XIV created seven new saints, including the first from Papua New Guinea, an archbishop killed in the Armenian genocide and a Venezuelan "doctor of the poor". Also canonised during the solemn ceremony, under sunny skies in the vast plaza on World Mission Day, were three nuns who dedicated their lives to the poor and sick, and former Satanic priest Bartolo Longo. The Italian lawyer born in 18......

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