VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI named five saints Sunday. Benedict singled out the Rev. Arcangelo Tadini, who founded an order of nuns to tend to factory workers — something of a scandal at the turn of the last century because factories were considered immoral and dangerous.
The only non-Italian canonized was Nuno Alvares Pereira, who helped secure Portugal’s independence from the Spanish kingdom of Castile in 1385, then entered religious life and dedicated himself to the poor. Also canonized was Bernardo Tolomei, a nearly blind monk who founded an order of monks in the 1340s. He died in 1348 along with 82 of his monks after leaving the monastery to tend to plague victims in Siena. Others canonized were Gertrude Comensoli and Caterina Volpicelli, 19th-century Italian nuns who founded religious orders. The Associated Press
