Pope creates 5 saints including Portuguese warrior

2009/04/26 10:27:55 @Reuters: International News

VATICAN CITY/LISBON (Reuters) - Pope Benedict created five new saints on Sunday, including Portugal's national hero Nuno Alvares Pereira, a medieval warrior-friar credited with securing Portugal's independence from Castile. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=OKYEMyqxIik:bep9Murw15U:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=OKYEMyqxIik:bep9Murw15U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=OKYEMyqxIik:bep9Murw15U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=OKYEMyqxIik:bep9Murw15U:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=OKYEMyqxIik:bep9Murw15U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/OKYEMyqxIik" height="1" width="1"/
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