VATICAN CITY, APRIL 21, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI will canonize five blesseds at a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.
The five who will be canonized are:
— Blessed Arcangelo Tadini, Italian priest and founder of the Congregation of the Worker Sisters of the Holy House of Nazareth.
— Blessed Bernardo Tolomei, Italian abbot and founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Virgin of Monte Oliveto.
— Blessed Nuno de Santa Maria Álvares Pereira, Portuguese religious of the Order of Friars of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.
— Blessed Gertrude Caterina Comensoli, Italian founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
— Blessed Caterina Volpicelli, Italian founder of the Institute of Handmaidens of the Sacred Heart.