Two Polish nuns beatified in Kraków

For the first time ever a beatficaton was conducted in Kraków by someone other than the pope. Cardinal Angelo Amato beatified Zofia Czeska (1584-1650) set up a school to prepare poor girls relgiously and intellectually for life. Małgorzata £ucja Szewczyk (1828-1905) devoted her entire life to orphans, the sick and needy. "The heritage they have left us is to do good and do it well," the cardinal said.

The purpose of declaring blesseds and saints is to hold up shining examples encoruaging people to rise above the base, pedestrian and prosaic and lead virtuous lives in the service of God and fellow-man.

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Like Saint Robert Bellarmine, who condemned people to be burnt at the stake?

Is that a shining example to you, Polonius?

Highly ahistorical. And your homeland and Church (if you were baptised Anglican) never killed or tortured anyone?

Bellarmine was entirely devoted to the Church and tried to defend teh faith the way that was prevalent in his epoch. He always wore a rough. abrasive noose around his neck (beneath his episcopal finery so no-one could see it) as sign of humiltiy and self-moritfication. A saiontly man he was.