By NICOLE WINFIELD
VATICAN CITY (AP) —
Some 80,000 pilgrims in flowered lei, feathered headdresses and other
traditional garb flooded St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict
XVI added seven more saints onto the roster of Catholic role models in a
bid to reinvigorate the faith in parts of the world where it's lagging.
Two
of the new saints were Americans: Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native
American saint from the U.S., and Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century
Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy patients in Hawaii.
It seemed as if a third saint, Pedro Calungsod,
a 17th century Filipino teenage martyr, drew the biggest crowd of all,
with Rome's sizeable Filipino expat community turning out in flag-waving
droves to welcome the country's second saint.
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