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History’s first Argentine pope cleared him for sainthood earlier this year and on Sunday will canonize Brochero along with six other people in one of the final big Masses of his Holy Year of Mercy.

From Seattle Times Oct. 13, 2016

His Holiness will canonize Junípero Serra during a mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

From Time Sep. 22, 2015

The friars also will host a delegation of their brethren from Majorca, Spain, the home of Junípero Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan friar whom the pope will canonize in a Mass at the Basilica.

From Washington Post Sep. 19, 2015

“He will canonize a local missionary, someone who made an effort to deliver the Gospel through local languages and cultures, careful to social justice and mercy,” he added.

From New York Times Jan. 12, 2015

Judas, we will canonize him;   For Cant is his hobby and twaddling his bliss; And tho' wise men may pity and wits may despise him,   He'll make but the better shop-saint for all this.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael