It is a Vatican rule: candidates for sainthood wait five years beyond their deaths before the Catholic Church begins its investigation of their “heroic virtue,” the first step toward canonization.
‘It is the message of Fatima,’ Bishop John Shojiro Ito, who formally approved the 1973 Marian apparitions, told the Japanese nun, who died this month. L to R: Seitai Hoshikai in Akita, Japan, where ...
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