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Catholic faithful stand outside the Apostolic Nunciature hoping to get a glimpse of Pope Francis, in Panama City, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. Francis will turn his attention to the country's priests and religious sisters on Saturday as he reaches the midway point in his five-day Central American visit. (AP Photo/Tito Herrera)

The Latest: Vatican: 600K attend pope’s vigil in Panama

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Pope Francis waves to faithful as he leaves St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. Pope Francis has declared Pope Paul VI and slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero saints, reciting in Latin the rite of canonization at the start of Mass in St. Peter's Square. After hearing brief biographies of Paul, Romero and five other people canonized Sunday, Francis declared them saints and "decreed that they are to be venerated as such by the whole church." (Giuseppe Lami/ANSA via AP)

Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI become saints

By Nicole Winfield and Marcos Aleman - Associated Press

Pope Francis, center, arrives for a canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. Pope Francis canonizes two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of saintliness for the faithful today. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

The Latest: New saint gives Salvadorans ‘happiest day’

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A woman takes photos of tapestries of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, 3rd from left, and Pope Paul VI, 4th from left, hanging from a balcony of the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of saintliness for the faithful today. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope makes El Salvador’s Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI saints

By NICOLE WINFIELD and MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

The tapestries of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, left, and Pope Paul VI hang from a balcony of the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. Pope Francis will elevate to sainthood the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero alongside Pope Paul VI in a ceremony on Sunday Oct. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope’s canonization of Paul VI, Romero personal, political

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this Oct. 3. 2018 photo, pigeons fly in front of a mural of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, located on a wall of the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador. Romero who was killed in 1980 by a right wing will death squad during mass, will be canonized in Rome by Pope Francis on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

In El Salvador, slain archbishop long seen as saint

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Cecilia Flores poses for a portrait inside the chapel where Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was assassinated in 1980, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. Flores underwent an emergency cesarean section and was diagnosed with an infection that left her in a coma. Suffering from internal hemorrhaging and with her kidneys on the verge of collapse, she was not expected to survive, but after her husband prayed to Romero for intervention, Flores made a full recovery. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

‘Miracle’ woman says El Salvador’s Oscar Romero a saint

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 24, 2011 file photo, protesters carry portraits of slain Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero on the 31st anniversary of his death in San Salvador, El Salvador. A judge in El Salvador ordered on Thursday, May 18, 2017, a reopening of the case of the 1980 murder of the archbishop. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)

El Salvador judge reopens case of archbishop’s 1980 murder

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