Carrying Pope Paul VI's pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis formally recognised them, and five others, as saints of the Catholic Church.
Thousands of pilgrims from the new saints' home countries - Italy, El Salvador, Spain and Germany - were joined by tens of thousands of others in St Peter's Square to celebrate the universal recognition of the holiness of men and women they already knew were saints.
Carolina Escamilla, who traveled from San Salvador for canonization, said she was "super happy" to be in Rome. "I don't think there are words to describe all that we feel after such a long-awaited and long-desired moment like the 'official' canonisation, because Archbishop Romero was already a saint when he was alive."
