Pope declares 10 new saints, including Dutch priest killed by Nazis
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermit monk assassinated in Algeria. The 85-year-old Pope, who has been using a wheel chair due to knee and leg pain, was driven to the altar […]
Dutch priest killed in Nazi concentration camp to be declared a saint; five priests killed in Paris Commune declared “martyrs”
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis will canonise Titus Brandsma, a Dutch priest, academic and journalist who was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp in 1942 for preaching against the Nazis, the Vatican said on Thursday. Brandsma, who was a member of the Carmelite religious order and served as president of the Catholic university at Nijmegen, began […]