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Pope Francis creates five new saints in canonisation ceremony

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Pope Francis creates five new saints, including Britain's Cardinal John Henry Newman - one of the Catholic Church's most renowned converts - and a nun dubbed the "Mother Teresa of Brazil". Heads of state from across the world attended the canonisation ceremony, which also raised a Swiss laywoman as well as two other nuns - an Indian and an Italian - to the highest position within the Church. IMAGES

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