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There was a festive air in Rome Saturday, the day before the Catholic Church gains six new saints, including the first for Australia, observers said.
The Catholic News Agency reported a sense of excitement was palpable in the streets of Rome where Catholic pilgrims, many of them wearing colored caps or scarves, were gathering for the canonization ceremony where Pope Benedict XVI will preside.
About 8,000 people traveled from Australia to Italy for the ceremony that will make a saint of 19th-century nun Mary MacKillop, who was 24 when she co-founded the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart. She lived from 1842 to 1909 and will be known as St. Mary of the Cross after the church determined she was responsible for curing two people of cancer.
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