Pope canonizes first Brazilian saint »
Posted by: JamesMarcus 1 year, 3 months agoPope Benedict XVI canonized an 18th-century monk--a friar who handed out tiny rice-paper pills inscribed with a prayer--as Brazil's first native-born saint Friday, as hundreds of thousands cheered and waved flags from all corners of South America.
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