BBC: Up to one million people are set to gather in Brazil to watch Pope Benedict XVI canonise the country's first home-born saint, Friar Galvao.
The open-air mass at an airfield in Sao Paulo marks the highlight of the Pope's first visit to Brazil, the world's most populous Catholic nation.
On Thursday, the Pope told thousands of young Catholics at a rally to avoid the "evil" of abortion and to stay chaste. Pope to laud Brazil’s first saint (more)
Mark Alexander
