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A joyous celebration in Romania as Pope Francis beatifies seven bishop-martyrs

Pope Francis greets the crowd 20190602T0459 29 CNS POPE ROMANIA BEATIFICATIONOn his last day in Romania, Pope Francis presided over a joyful Divine Liturgy in the small town of Blaj, the heartland of the country’s Greek-Catholic Church, on Sunday June 2, where he declared “blessed” seven of its bishops, including one cardinal. All seven had died a martyr’s death in the decades following the suppression of the Eastern-rite Romanian Catholic Church in 1948.
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