Nun who saved Jews in WWII is beatified
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A Hungarian nun who helped save the lives of dozens of Jews during World War II was beatified Sunday in a Mass attended by thousands.
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer to sainthood, including Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire the blockbuster movie "The Passion of the Christ."   Cheers went up in St. Peter's Square from a crowd of about 30,000 people when the pontiff finished reading the Latin words with which he beatified the five candidates, and banners with their images were unfurled on the facade of St...
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Pope John Paul, looking tired and speaking with difficulty, put five Catholics on the road to sainthood Sunday, including the 19th century German mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson&#39;s film on Christ&#39;s passion.
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Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" and an ...
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JERUSALEM - Pop diva Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early Sunday, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage.    The singer is in Israel on a five-day spiritual quest along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism...
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ROME Pope John Paul II on Sunday put the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, Charles I, on the road to sainthood in a solemn beatification ceremony in St.
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Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917, on a fast-track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday.
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A SPECIAL mass has been held to celebrate the 100th birthday of Portsmouth's oldest nun.
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The Vatican cleared the way Monday for the beatification of Mother Marianne Cope, a nun who helped found what is now St.
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Description: NPR&#39;s John Ydstie talks with John Allen, Vatican correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter, about Sunday&#39;s beatification ceremony for five new Catholic saints.
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The 19th-century mystic nun who inspired some of the more controversial scenes of Mel Gibson&#39;s hit movie, &quot;The Passion of the Christ,&quot; was beatified yesterday by Pope John Paul II.
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Sister Leonella Sgorbati, who was slain outside a hospital where she worked as a missionary in Somalia's restive capital, was remembered Thursday as a devoted nun who was willing to die to help the starving and sick in Africa.
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Their 1999 research on an unsung hero who sheltered Jewish children during the Holocaust has become a play that's been performed abroad â and brought recognition to a Polish woman.
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Special to the Journal-World. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize is remembered fondly by the nuns who taught her in Atchison.
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ROME -- Pope Pius XII ordered the church in France not to return Jewish children to their parents if they had been baptized into the Catholic faith to save them from the Nazis, according to a 1946 letter obtained by a historian.
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On the final stop of his trip to his predecessor's homeland, the German Pope visited the notorious death camp and offered a remarkable meditation on the Holocaust
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VATICAN CITY, OCT. 3, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- Anna Katharina Emmerick, the newly beatified Augustinian nun, endured long physical sufferings.