Bringing his total of "Saints made" to 18, this morning the Pope presided at the canonization of four new ones in St Peter's Square: two founders of religious communities -- the Italian founder of the Sacred Hearts order
Gaetano Errico and the Swiss Franciscan foundress
Mary Bernard Bütler -- the Ecuadorean laywoman
Narcisa de Jesus Martillo and (in the day's big story) India's first formally-recognized saint:
Alphonsa, the 20th century Kerala Clarist whose
final miracle involved the 1999 cure of a disabled boy.
GAETANO ERRICO was born on October 19, 1791 in Secondigliano, a small village on the northern boundary of the City of Naples, Italy.
MARY BERNARD (Verena Bütler) was born in Auw, in the Canton of Argovia, in Switzerland, on the 28th of May 1848 and was
baptised on the same day.
NARCISA DE JESÚS MARTILLO MORÁN was born in 1832 in the hamlet of St Joseph in Nobol, Daule, Ecuador.
Blessed ALPHONSA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION was born in Kudamalur
clipped from: whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com 
