WORLD BRIEFING / VATICAN CITY
Pope Benedict XVI named five new saints, including Portugal’s 14th century independence leader and a priest who ministered to factory workers in the early industrial era.
Benedict singled out the Rev. Arcangelo Tadini, who lived at the turn of the last century and founded an order of nuns to tend to factory workers -- something of a scandal at the time because factories were considered immoral places.
The only non-Italian canonized was Nuno Alvares Pereira, who helped secure Portugal’s independence from the Spanish kingdom of Castile.
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