Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy | 
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'Where [John Paul II] surprised everybody was in his berserk canonizations of everyone in sight: quite apart from the 1,340 men and women whom he beatified, the first step to sainthood, he canonized no fewer than 483 new saints, more than had been made in the previous five centuries.'
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