The Catholic Church follows an in-depth process in order to declare someone a saint. There are four steps of canonization in the Church: 1. Servant of God Five years after the person has died, the process can begin. The bishop of the diocese where the person died can decide to open the cause of canonization. This begins an investigation into the life of the person. The investigation determines if person lived a life of heroic virtue or died by martyrdom. Once the investigation is complete, a doc

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Today the Vatican is canonizing seven new saints, and one of them is Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan, a martyr of the Armenian Genocide. Born in 1869 in Mardin, he studied at the Armenian Catholic Seminary in Bzommar, Lebanon, and served as a priest in several Lebanese parishes before becoming Archbishop of Mardin. During the genocide in 1915, he and many of his parishioners were arrested, tortured, and executed for refusing to renounce their Christian faith. His canonization recognizes his courage,

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