The Pope has canonised seven new Saints in a ceremony in St Peter’s Square attended by more than 70,000 people.

Many of the crowd had come from Venezuela to see their beloved 'doctor of the poor', Jose Gregorio Hernandez Cisneros made a Saint. He was a doctor in Caracas at the turn of the 20th century who refused to take money from the poor for his services and often gave them money for medicine. He was killed in 1919 while crossing the road after collecting medicine for an elderly woman.

Another Venezuelan, Mother Carmen Rendiles Martinez, the founder of a religious order, the Sisters Slaves of Jesus, was also among those canonised today.

Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer who once served as a satanic priest before a dramatic conversion to Catholicism was also made a Saint.

Others include Ignazio Choukrallah Maloyan, an Armenian bishop martyred during the Ottoman genocide; Peter To Rot, a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea executed during the Japanese occupation; Vincenza Maria Poloni, founder of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona; and Maria Troncatti, a Salesian missionary to Ecuador’s Indigenous Shuar people.