[ad_1] Statuary sits before imagery of the recently canonized saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 20, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis canonized 14 new saints on Sunday, including a father of eight and Franciscan friars killed in Syria for refusing to renounce their faith and convert to Islam.In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century founders of religious…

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