A Patron Saint for Hopeless Clickers
Washington Post: “The patron saint hunt is a subset of a boom in saint recognition under John Paul II’s reign. These days, saints aren’t so much marching as flooding in. During the past quarter century, John Paul has presided over 465 canonizations, the formal declarations that recognize full-fledged saints, and 1,297 beatifications, the designation of “blesseds” who stand on a rung just below sainthood. That compares with 447 canonizations and 1,310 beatifications during the preceding 400 years.... In one day, John Paul beatified 233 nuns, priests and lay people killed by Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War.