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Sunday, 6 October, 2002, 12:31 GMT 13:31 UK

In pictures: Opus Dei founder canonised

Thousands of pilgrims thronged St Peter's Square in Rome for the canonisation of the founder of the controversial Opus Dei movement, Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer.

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