Women hold up photographs of Iranian president Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash.
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Iran’s government have declared their former president is a martyr, and this is forming part of the political campaign ahead of the election.
Bearers carry the relic and the statue in honor of St. Anthony of Padua during a procession in Rome, Italy. St. Anthony of Padua was proclaimed a doctor of the church in 1946.
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Saints are recognized for exceptional virtue and faith. But some also are commemorated for their scholarship.
The ceremony for the beatification of Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, is held Oct. 10 in front of the St. Francis Basilica in Assisi, Italy.
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Italian teenager Carlo Acutis, who died at the age of 15, is on the path to becoming a saint. A scholar explains the long history of child saints in the Catholic Church.
The virgin martyr Saint Agatha of Sicily.
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The virgin martyrs were slaughtered to stop them speaking out, and yet their stories have prevailed.