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As men, Senator McCain indicates, they fell far short of sainthood.
2) "I was running for speaker, not sainthood."
Pope John Paul II paid his third visit to the shrine of Fátima in 2000 and beatified (the final step before sainthood) the shepherd boy and girl who claimed to be visited by the Virgin Mary over a period of six months in 1913.
"The pope, on applications for sainthood."
But sainthood, I learned soon enough, is a fateWorse than life, nights on call for the demonsIn a vomiting lamb, a dry breast, a broken radio,And days spent parroting the timeless adages,Spent arbitrating water rights, property lines,Or feuds between rival herdsmen over scrub brush,Spent blessing every bride and anyone's big-belliedFourth or fifth wife, praying that they deliver sons.I thought back to the time, not ten feet from him,I heard a homily delivered by old John XXIII,Sounding wholly seraphic in his murmured Italian.