Long lines of white-clad bishops formed just a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Catholics who flocked to the Vatican to watch Pope Francis proclaim his predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints.
Cheers and applause rang out across St Peter's Square after the historic double canonisation of two towering figures of 20th Century Roman Catholicism.
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Crowds filled St Peter’s Square and stretched back along Via della Conciliazione, the broad, half-kilometre boulevard that starts at the Tiber River.
The Vatican said more than 500,000 people filled the basilica area while another 300,000 watched the event on large television screens throughout Rome.