(11 Feb 2024)
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Vatican City - 11 February 2024
1. Argentine President Javier Milei arriving at ceremony inside St. Peter's Basilica
2. Pan of ceiling of Basilica
3. People taking photos of Milei
4. Wide of inside of basilica
5. Various of Milei before Mass
6. Pope Francis arriving on wheelchair and gesturing for people to sit down
7. Milei standing during ceremony
8. Francis seated during ceremony
9. Various of tapestry of Mama Antula inside Basilica
10. Milei standing during ceremony
11. Francis seated during ceremony
12. Faithful watching canonisation on screens in St. Peter's Square
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Annabella Lopez, faithful from Argentina:
"We are all very, very excited, all Argentines, but especially Argentine women because the first woman saint is really an enormous step forward. What a pity it couldn’t have happened before, but fine, now women are starting to have more visibility and this is a great step that the church is also doing.”
14. Faithful watching canonisation on screens in St. Peter's Square
15. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Suor Maria, Argentine nun:
"We’re having a party, no? You have to have a party, a party in heaven and here. Yes, truly. There are many sisters. We were founded in Argentine by Padre Carlos Buela, so for us it’s really important because we are also an Argentine congregation, missionaries all around the world that promote the spiritual exercises, which is one of the most important things of this saint.”
16. Faithful watching canonisation on screens in St. Peter's Square
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fabiana Grazia, faithful from Argentina:
"Mama Antula is a Saint, she is a patriot, she has transmitted the spirituality to St. Ignatius, and she thought us to rediscover the sense of life: why we are here. So this was her vocation. She focused on the viceroys to the most humble people, and with humility – she was from a high class of Santiago del Estero and abandoned everything for the cross of Christ and the Gospel.”
18. Close of entrance ticket to ceremony
19. Wide St. Peter's Square
STORYLINE:
Argentine faith and politics came together on Sunday during a Mass at the Vatican to canonize the country's first female saint.
The ceremony to declare Mama Antula a saint marked the first meeting between Argentine President Javier Milei and his fellow countryman Pope Francis.
Milei, who once called Francis an “imbecile” for defending social justice, waved to supporters in the pews as he entered the basilica and posed for selfie photos before the liturgy.
He sat to Francis’ right, on the side of the main altar, throughout the ceremony and later bent over and gave the pope a big bearhug when Francis was wheeled over to him at the end of the service.
Argentines flocked to the canonization, which turned into something of an Argentine fiesta in Rome.
Mama Antula was an 18th century laywoman who ministered to the poor and helped keep Jesuit spirituality alive in Argentina after the religious order — to which the pope belongs — was suppressed.
In his homily, Francis praised Mama Antula as a model of charity and urged the faithful to really touch the wounds of the poor, as Jesus overcame fear and prejudice to touch the wounds of lepers.
Mama Antula, born María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, is a figure beloved to Argentines, a woman who left behind a life of privilege to spread Ignatian spirituality across Argentina after the Jesuits were ordered expelled from Spain’s colonies.
AP video shot by: Gianfranco Stara
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