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 Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and seven men, including an Italian judge who was murdered by the infamous Sicilian Mafia. During a meeting yesterday with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, the Pope signed a decree recognising the martyrdom of Rosario Livatino, who was murdered by four members of the Mafia organization, commonly known as Cosa Nostra, in 1990.