There is a popular Portuguese saying: �descer todos os santos ajudam�, meaning : �to go down all saints give help�, or rather, one must rely on one's own efforts to come up! However, blasphemous the Marlon's style may be, he could be entitled to the Portuguese kind of sainthood! As some others have suggested / affirmed / accused, canonization is an "expensive" business. If "Rome" was located somewhere in the "third world", I doubt the procedure would remain the same! But it is also true that saints pay back the money spent on them. The sanctuaries anywhere in the world become centres of bristling trade and commerce. Many make their living out of them. Hence, Filomena Giese and others struggling for "our saints" are to be thanked by the petty shop-keepers / traders waiting in the wings.
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