Pope Canonises Sri Lanka's First Saint

Hundreds of blic gatherings the city has ever witnessed.thousands of Sri Lankans have crowded the Colombo seafront as Pope Francis canonised the island's first saint in one of the biggest public gatherings the city has ever witnessed. On Wednesday, Francis conducted a mass on Colombo's Galle Face Green before canonising Joseph Vaz, a 17th century missionary who disguised himself as a beggar, in the first papal visit to the island nation in two decades.