Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:50:01 +0200 (Reuters) - Workers fix the tapestry at St. Peter's Basilica for the beatification of the Pope John Paul II at the Vatican April 30, 2011. As the Vatican prepares to elevate the late pontiff one step closer to sainthood this Sunday, the Catholic world is caught up with beatification fever. Rome is festooned with posters of the former pope on buses and lamp posts as the city where he was bishop for 27 years awaits one of the largest crowds since his funeral in 2005, when millions came to pay tribute.
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A tapestry showing new Canadian Saint Andre Bessette hangs from ...
Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:40:02 +0200 (Reuters) - A tapestry showing new Canadian Saint Andre Bessette hangs from Saint Peter's Basilica as Pope Benedict XVI leads a solemn mass for the canonisation of six new saints in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican October 17, 2010. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Pope Benedict XVI stands in front of the tapestry showing new ...
Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:10:02 +0200 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI stands in front of the tapestry showing new Australian Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop as he arrives to lead a solemn mass for the canonisation of six new saints in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican October 17, 2010. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION IMAGES OF THE DAY)
FILE - This Oct. 11, 2009 file photo shows a tapestry depicting ...
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:40:03 +0100 (AP) - FILE - This Oct. 11, 2009 file photo shows a tapestry depicting Father Damien, born as Joseph De Veuster, hanging from the St. Peter Basilica facade during a canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s square at the Vatican. Damien has long been a saint to the people of Hawaii for caring for exiled leprosy patients in the mid-1800s on the Kalaupapa peninsula on the island of Molokai when no one else would, and then contracting and dying of the disfiguring disease himself. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
A tapestry depicting Portugal's national hero Nuno Alvares ...
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:50:03 +0200 (Reuters) - A tapestry depicting Portugal's national hero Nuno Alvares Pereira, one of five new saints, hangs from Saint Peter's facade at the Vatican during a canonisation mass led by Pope Benedict XVI April 26, 2009. The pope told pilgrims at the canonisation in the Vatican that the 14th-century nobleman, Pereira, had shown that "in any situation, even of a military and warlike nature, it is possible to act and live out the values and principles of Christian life". REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (VATICAN RELIGION)
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