Pope Francis has created 10 new saints, rallying from knee pain that had forced him to use a wheelchair. Francis stood for a long period at the start of Sunday’s ceremony to greet priests concelebrating the Mass, and hobbled onto the altar. There, he proclaimed the six men and four women saints, including a Dutch priest-journalist who was killed by the Nazis. Francis has been complaining of strained ligaments in his right knee for months. Sunday’s ceremony was evidence that Francis is able to still walk but appears to be taking it as easy as possible to let the ligaments heal before an intense period of travel starting in July to Africa and Canada.
The Italian president, Dutch foreign minister, French interior minister and the minister for minorities of India, as well as tens of thousands of faithful packed the sunny piazza, which was adorned with Dutch flowers in honor of the Rev. Titus Brandsma, a martyr saint who was killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1942.
In addition to Brandsma, the new saints include the 18th-century Indian convert Lazarus, known also as Devashayam, who mixed with India's lower castes and was considered treasonous by India’s royal palace, which ordered him arrested and executed in 1752.
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