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Pope: Three New Saints of the Universal Church. The canonizations of Don Luigi Guanella and the founder of the Xaverian Missionaries, Guido Maria Conforti, will take place on October 23rd. The news …More
Pope: Three New Saints of the Universal Church.

The canonizations of Don Luigi Guanella and the founder of the Xaverian Missionaries, Guido Maria Conforti, will take place on October 23rd. The news was announced this morning after an ordinary consistory at the Vatican. Also canonized will be the Spanish religious, Blessed Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro, founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Saint Joseph. Don Guanella was beatified in 1964 and is the founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Charity and the Institute of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence. Blessed since 1996, Guido Maria Conforti founded the Xaverian Missionaries who went to China in 1899. The consistory also appointed Cardinal Tauran as the new Cardinal Protodeacon, whose duty, among others, is to announce a new Pope.