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Pope, creating six new saints, uses newly abbreviated formula

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25 November 2014 - Updated on 1 April 2021
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Moved to tears: People become emotional as more than 100,000 devotees fill the Chavara shrine on a hilltop at Mannanam, India, on November 23, as St Kuriakose Elias Chavara was canonised at the Vatican, along with St Euphrasia Eluvathingal, who also was from Kerala. Photo: CNS/Anto Akkara

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Moved to tears: People become emotional as more than 100,000 devotees fill the Chavara shrine on a hilltop at Mannanam, India, on November 23, as St Kuriakose Elias Chavara was canonised at the Vatican, along with St Euphrasia Eluvathingal, who also was from Kerala.
Photo: CNS/Anto Akkara

POPE Francis proclaimed six new saints using a newly simplified rite, and praised them for the love and self-giving with which they served God and built up his kingdom by serving the poor and needy.

Creating the two Indian and four Italian saints on November 23, the feast of Christ the King, the Pope said, “They responded with extraordinary creativity to the commandment of love of God and neighbour,” dedicating themselves, “without holding back, to serving the least and assisting the destitute, sick, elderly and pilgrims”.

The Mass in St Peter’s Square began with the canonisations using an even briefer formula than what had become standard with St John Paul II. The formula had been expanded by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.

The new rite did away with the three “petitions” used by Pope Benedict; the cardinal prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes would ask the pope three times to canonise candidates and the pope would respond by asking God to “sustain with his grace” the act of canonisation and not allow the Church to err in such an important matter. In response to the third petition, the pope would recite the formula for canonisation.

Instead on November 22 congregation prefect Cardinal Angelo Amato requested Pope Francis canonise the six candidates and the Pope responded by introducing a litany of the saints, praying that through their intercession God would “sustain with his grace the act which we now solemnly undertake”.

After singing the litany, Pope Francis read the canonisation formula, proclaiming the new saints:

• Kuriakose Elias Chavara, the Indian founder of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, a Syro-Malabar Catholic order. Born in 1805, he died in 1871.

• Euphrasia Eluvathingal, a member of the Carmelites founded by St Chavara. She lived 1877-1952.

• Nicholas of Longobardi, an Italian friar of the Minim order, who lived from 1650-1709.

• Giovanni Antonio Farina, an Italian bishop of Vicenza and the founder of the Teaching Sisters of St Dorothy. He died in 1888.

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• Ludovico of Casoria, the 19th-century Italian founder of the Grey Franciscan Friars of Charity and the Grey Franciscan Sisters of St Elizabeth.

• Amato Ronconi, a 13th-century Italian lay Franciscan and founder of a hospice for the poor, which is now a home for the elderly in Rimini, Italy.

In his homily at the Mass, Pope Francis focused on the feast of Christ the King and the description in the day’s first reading (Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17) of how God shepherds his people.

“These verses,” the Pope said, “are interwoven with verbs which show the care and love that the shepherd has for his flock: to search, to look over, to gather the dispersed, to lead into pasture, to bring to rest, to seek the lost sheep, to lead back the confused, to bandage the wounded, to heal the sick, to take care of, to pasture.”

The Old Testament description was “fulfilled in Jesus Christ”, he said, and those who ministered in Christ’s name – the pope, the bishops and priests – must follow his example “if (they) do not want to become hirelings. In this regard the People of God have an unerring sense for recognising good shepherds and in distinguishing them from hirelings.”

Thousands of Catholics from India, especially from Kerala, travelled to the Vatican to celebrate St Chavara and St Eluvathingal. Meeting the pilgrims briefly on November 24, Pope Francis said the two Indians “remind each of us that God’s love is the source and the goal and the support of all holiness, while love of neighbour is the clearest demonstration of love for the Lord”.

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