Two Palestinian women who lived in Bethlehem almost a century and a half ago have been honored with the highest accolade that the Catholic Church can bestow.
Ordinarily, Jews have little interest in whom the Roman Catholic Church canonizes as saints. Yet, on the Sunday after Easter, the day that coincides with Yom Ha-Shoah, the 27th of Nisan, two men, Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, will be elevated to sainthood, and both of them bear notice.
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