Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/10/13
By: Huang Ya-shih and Joseph Yeh

Vatican City, Oct. 13 (CNA) Taiwan’s Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) on Sunday attended the canonization of late British Cardinal John Henry Newman and four others in Vatican City.

Serving as the special envoy of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Chen sat next to Brazilian Vice President Antonio Mourao and Ireland’s Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh during the ceremony, which was attended by delegations from around the world.

The dignitaries included Charles, Prince of Wales; Italian President Sergio Mattarella; Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Vellamvelly Muraleedharan; and Swiss Federal Councilor Karin Keller-Sutter.

At the ceremony, Pope Francis canonized Cardinal Newman, a 19th century British theologian and poet; Indian Sister Marian Thresia, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family; Italian Sister Giuseppina Vannini; Brazilian Sister Dulce Lopes Pontes; and Marguerite Bays, a Swiss consecrated virgin of the Third Order of St. Francis.    [FULL  STORY]