But the Native American campaign to stop Serra's canonization never gained an audience in Rome, Miranda said.

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Jake, now 12, and his mother were invited to travel to Italy with a group for the canonization ceremony in Vatican City.

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His tireless campaign for the canonization of Edward the Confessor finally succeeded.

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Tekakwitha's canonization follows what has been judged a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church in the 2006 case of an American boy with a flesh-eating bug.

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The new saints were all approved for canonization in a decree read by Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 11 during the same ceremony in which he announced he was resigning as pontiff.

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But within a few years of Boniface's death in 1303, Pope Clement V, his successor, moved the papacy to Avignon, France, repudiated Boniface and quickly began canonization proceedings for the soon-to-be St.

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It is because of this moral imperative to remain vigilant in seeking justice for our murdered brethren that successive governments have strained relations with the Vatican by objecting to Pius XII's canonization.

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He clearly has no desire to see the crowning triumph of his campaign to woo the West perhaps as close as an atheist practitioner of Leninist doctrine can come to canonization become a public relations rout for its coming in the midst of a new campaign of Kremlin repression bearing his imprint.

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He clearly has no desire to see the crowning triumph of his campaign to woo the West -- perhaps as close as an atheist practitioner of Leninist doctrine can come to canonization -- become a public relations rout for its coming in the midst of a new campaign of Kremlin repression bearing his imprint.

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