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"isn't a party with lots of flowers. This is pretty, but it's not this, it's more than this," Francis said.

Pope Francis decries 'vile' attack on Syrians in Easter address →

"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 →