{"id":38387,"date":"2013-09-30T18:50:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=38387"},"modified":"2013-09-30T18:50:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T14:50:48","slug":"popes-john-xxiii-and-john-paul-ii-to-be-declared-saints-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=38387","title":{"rendered":"Popes John XXIII and John Paul II to be declared saints in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wedeman-pope-saints.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38372\" alt=\"wedeman-pope-saints\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wedeman-pope-saints.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wedeman-pope-saints.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wedeman-pope-saints-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wedeman-pope-saints-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be declared saints in April, the Vatican said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after Pope Francis met with cardinals to discuss the planned canonizations of two of his predecessors. The ceremony will take place on April 27.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time two popes will be canonized at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>To be named a saint involves a series of steps, but the qualifications are straightforward, according to the veteran Vatican analyst John Allen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You put a holy life and two miracles together, according to the Catholic system, you&#8217;ve got a saint,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The calls to canonize John Paul II began even before he had been buried. People attending his funeral in 2005 held banners saying &#8220;Santo Subito,&#8221; short for &#8220;make him a saint now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bypassing the normal five-year waiting period, Pope Benedict XVI set in motion the process to canonize his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be declared saints in April, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[2439],"class_list":["post-38387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-pop","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}