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Haemorrhage - Severe blood loss from a damaged blood vessel.
Catholic Church - The word Catholic means "universal". A Christian denomination with over a billion followers worldwide, led by the Pope.
Tomb - A vault, usually underground, for burying the dead.
Leukaemia - Cancer of the white blood cells.
Beatified - In the Catholic church, a formal announcement that someone who is dead has lived a holy life. It is one of the steps towards sainthood.
Canonised - In the Catholic Church, to officially declare someone a saint.
Pope - The bishop of Rome and the head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
Millennials - People who reached adulthood in the early 21st Century.
Exceptional - Someone or something that has a particular quality, usually a good quality, to an unusually high degree.