Monday, October 18 2010
Australia has welcomed the nation's first saint, Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop, with cheers, tears of joy and enthusiastic applause.
St Mary was declared at about 1945 AEDT on Sunday October 17, 2010 during a canonisation ceremony at the Vatican in Rome led by Pope Benedict XVI.
Up to 8000 Australians, wearing yellow or teal coloured scarves, watched from the square of St Peter's, the centre of Roman Catholicism. Across Australia, many thousands more watched the live broadcast.
The ceremony was broadcast live on
Sky News and at various sites around Australia, where thousands had gathered.
Ai-Media provided live closed captioning services for the
Sky News broadcast of the Canonisation.
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