Two for the Price of One
John Paul II and John XXIII, two major reformists of the Catholic Church, were enrolled as saints. Some 100 world leaders and important figures attended the event held for the first time ever: the canonization of two popes at once.
May 6, 2014
With the canonization on Sunday, April 27 taking place in both the Vatican City and Wadowice, Poland, it seemed to illustrate again the two sides of Karol Wojtyla. In the Vatican the provision of the title of saint, the highest spiritual level in Church tradition, to John Paul II, the papal name of Wojtyla, as well as his predecessor, Pope John XXIII, was a grand ceremony attended by heads of state, kings, queens, and representatives of governmen
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