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"To canonize them both together will be, I believe, a message for the church," Francis said last summer. "These two were wonderful, both of them."

Pope Francis deeply influenced by both saintly pontiffs →

"What I did in translating was to remove all the particularities from the letters, anything that would identify it as dealing with this or that person or private concerns, so now they really read like meditations," he said.

Book offers meditations based on Francis de Sales' letters →