Brooklyn Pilgrims Travel to Rome for Canonization of Popes
April 25, 2014Among the throngs in Saint Peter’s Square for the canonizations of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII, a contingent from […]
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John Paul II, John XXIII to be Saints
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