ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Pope Francis proclaimed two of his predecessors, Popes John XXIII and John Paul II as saints of the Catholic Church on Sunday (April 27) at a ceremony in Saint Peter's Square attended by hundreds of thousands of faithful from around the world.<br/> <br />The canonisation of two former popes on the same day was unprecedented in the history of the Church.<br/> <br />Hundreds of thousands of people packed into the squares and streets of the Vatican to watch the ceremony.<br/> <br />The crowd was so large that it stretched back along all of Via della Conciliazione, the half kilometre-long, broad boulevard that starts at the Tiber River, where even some of the bridges were packed with pilgrims.<br/> <br />The Mass, which began under a light rain, was also attended by former Pope Benedict, who on February 28, 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to step down. Benedict walked with a cane and was dressed in white vestments.<br/> <br />It was only the second time Ben
