Pope Benedict XVI canonizes first native born Brazilian saint to cheers of thousands

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | May 11, 2007| | Copyright

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Pope Benedict XVI canonized an 18th-century monk -- a friar who handed out tiny rice-paper pills inscribed with a prayer -- as Brazil's first native-born saint Friday, as hundreds of thousands cheered and waved flags from all corners of South America.

Seated on a throne of Brazilian hardwood and surrounded by Latin American bishops and choirs of hundreds, Benedict pronounced the sainthood of Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao, the Franciscan monk who is credited by the church with 5,000 miracle cures.

The canonization makes Galvao the first native-born saint from the world's ...

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