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Stained glass window at St Peter's Church, Cound, Shropshire, England, depicting ten Christian saints in two rows, each holding symbolic objects.

Painting of Saint Jude Thaddeus with a halo, holding an image of Jesus and a staff, set in an ornate gold frame in St. Jude Thaddeus Roman Church, Rome.

A large tapestry portrait of Carlo Acutis hangs above an altar in St. Francis Basilica, with clergy in white robes and pink skullcaps gathered below during his beatification ceremony.

Virgin of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego

St. Christoper and St. James the Greater

St. Brigid of Ireland

St. Kateri Tekakwitha and St. Francis of Assisi

Photo of Saint Carlos Acutis in a Catholic church.

The 14th Dalai Lama with hands pressed in prayer appears next to a silhouette with a question mark and the text "the next Dalai Lama" between blue arrows.

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Stained glass of Joan of Arc in St. Mary of the Angels, Wellington, New Zealand. Roman Catholic church. (Saint Joan of Arc, St. Joan of Arc)

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Saint Thomas Aquinas. Apotheosis of St. Thomas Aquinas, altarpiece by Francesco Traini, 1363; in Santa Caterina, Pisa, Italy. St. Thomas Aquinas (c1225-1274) Italian philosopher and theologian. Dominican order of monks (black friars).

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