(CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints Sunday, including a 19th-century priest who worked with ostracized leprosy patients in Hawaii before contracting the disease himself and dying from it. Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints Sunday in a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Jozef De Veuster, better known as Father Damien, was elevated to sainthood along with the four others in a solemn Mass that was moved indoors from St. Peter's Square to the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City because of an early morning thunderstorm. Thousands attended, including the woman whose cure from cancer was attributed to her praying to Damien. The church counts her cure as one of two miracles the priest performed -- a key requirement for sainthood.
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Five new saints canonized by Pope Benedict XVI
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Priest who worked in Hawaii leprosy colony among new saints
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Four others included French nun, Polish bishop, two Spaniards
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