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Pope Francis led an open-air service in St Peter s Square Rome, visited by tens of thousands

cardinal John Henry Newman, a Saint of The Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony in Rome.

The open-air mass at the Vatican celebrated by the Pope, was attended by tens of thousands of pilgrims.

the theologian and poet, Newman, died in Birmingham in 1890, The First English person, a Saint, in almost 50 Years .

The Prince of Wales joined the Mass in St Peter's Square, on which four women were also canonized.

Prince of Wales attended the mass to canonise 19th-century cardinal John Henry Newman

mother Mariam Thresia from India, Switzerland Marguerite Bays , mother Giuseppina Vannini from Italy and the Brazil-born sister Dulce Lopes Pontes, the saints at the fair were celebrated by Pope Francis in Italian.

John Henry Newman is The First English saint since the Forty martyrs, the executed have been adopted under the laws, during the English Reformation canonized, and in 1970

thousands of Brits travelled to Rome, to celebrate.

Carol Parkinson, Secretary of The Friends of the Newman of Birmingham, said it was a special and emotional day.

"His integrity, his friendship, his capacity for friendship and loyalty and hard work, a very good and hopeful model for all," she added.

A priest gave instructions to other Ministers before the mass for the canonization of the 19Th Century British cardinal John Henry Newman, David Willey , BBC Vatican correspondent

Newman, The First Englishman born since the 1600s to be promoted to the full canonization by the Catholic Church . To hear

Pope Francis quotes relationships and The Words of John Henry Newman's sermons from nearly two centuries, the huge crowd gathered in St Peter's square for the canonization ceremony, as important a figure of the English cardinal, and a Saint in the 21St Century , inter-Church.

Newman described The Christian character as "cheerful, easy-going, friendly, polite, open-minded and modest. "In fact, someone who is very much in line with Pope Francis .

The new English Church held to follow as a model of Pope Francis for the modern Christians.

at the time of his conversion of the majority of Anglicans, thought Newman was out of his mind, for lack of a despised minority religion. But today, he is revered as a bridge Builder, not a defector.

cardinal Newman, born in London in 1801 and attended the Trinity College, Oxford, Los, an Anglican priest and a leading theologian.

He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1845.

Newman was credited with by the Vatican, the healing of A Man deformity of the spine, disease and healing of a woman with the unstoppable bleeding.

The service, under the direction of Pope Francis in the Vatican, also canonized, a Swiss laywoman, an Indian nun, an Italian nun, and a nun known as the "Mother Teresa of Brazil,"

The Cardinal was recognized by Pope Benedict in an open-air divine service in his home town of Birmingham after The First miracle.

His mortal remains lie in a closed sarcophagus at Birmingham Oratory.

The Last English Canon polymerization were Reformation in the year 1970, the Forty martyrs of England and Wales, a group of Catholics that is executed, adopted between 1535 and 1679, under the laws, during the English.

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