Pope to elevate British convert Newman to sainthood

Pope Francis creates five new saints on Sunday, including Britain's Cardinal John Henry Newman one of Catholic Church's most rewned converts and an Indian nun. Hes of state from across world are expected at Vatican ceremony, which will also raise a Swiss laywoman, a nun dubbed "Mor Teresa of Brazil" and an Italian nun to highest position within centuries-old institution.

Pope Francis elevates Britain's Cardinal Newman to position of "Saint"

Prince Charles future he of Church of England will le British delegation in houring Newman, a 19th-century Anglican ologian who went on to become one of Catholic Church's leing thinkers. Born in 1801, Newman attempted to "renew" Anglican Church, before becoming convinced that Catholicism was only true faith and converting d 44, rising through hierarchy to become a cardinal.

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Despite w paying him highest hour, Catholic Church was accused in 2008 of defying Newman's dying wish by trying to move his body from a small English cemetery to grand Oratory church in Birmingham. Newman, who died in 1890, h said he wished "with all my heart" to be buried alongside lifelong friend and fellow convert Ambrose St. John.

men h lived toger for 32 years, though it is t clear wher ir relationship was a sexually active one. Church's bid to separate m failed when Newman's coffin was found empty, his body h decomposed. Most new saints must have two "miracles" to ir names usually scientifically inexplicable healings, attributed to prayers me to late candidate.

Newman is credited with curing an American man from Boston with a debilitating spinal disorder, who claimed in 2001 he could suddenly walk again after praying to British cardinal. His second "miracle"  inexplicable healing of a woman with a "life-threatening pregnancy" was approved this year. Giant portraits of new saints were hung from Saint Peter's Basilica for ceremony, set to draw tens of thousands of pilgrims.

Among m is Marguerite Bays, a laywoman from Switzerland kwn for bearing stigmata wounds corresponding to injuries Christ suffered on cross on her hands, feet and chest. Born in 1815, second of seven children, Buys showed an intense faith from very early on, often breaking off from playing with or vill youngsters in order to pray quietly, according to Vatican.

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Despite suggestions she should become a nun, she inste began an apprenticeship as a seamstress d 15, before later becoming a professed member of Secular Franciscan Order a lay person who spre Catholic faith. Bays underwent surgery for bowel cancer in 1853, and prayed to Virgin Mary to heal her, offering to swap her disease for pains experienced by Jesus. Church says she was cured, but given stigmata in exchange.

Every Friday at 3 pm she would be immobilised in "ecstasy" as she relived suffering in body and mind, it says. She will be canised alongside Brazilian Sister Dulce Lopes Pontes, who was a member of Missionary Sisters of Immaculate Conception and considered a "mor of poor".

Born in 1914 into an upper-middle-class family in Salvor, she started a health clinic for poor workers and opened a school, a hospital, and an orphan, as well as care centres for elderly and disabled. Sister Dulce, dubbed "good angel of Bahia", was minated for bel Peace Prize in 1988. She was visited in hospital year before her death by Pope John Paul II, who called her work "an example for humanity". Tens of thousands of people attended her funeral in 1992.

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