Blessed Pedro Calungsod Declares the Second Filipino Saint by the Vatican

Blessed Pedro Calungsod Declares the Second Filipino Saint by the Vatican

Blessed Pedro Calungsod of Cebu, who got beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000, will be canonized as a saint for the Roman Catholic Church as announced by the Vatican through its website today, December 20.

This is after Pope Benedict XVI officially approved the promulgation of decrees for canonization of Calungsod and six others who have been said to have performed miracles.

Though no definite date has yet to be released by the Vatican, Calungsod, once canonized, will become the second Filipino Catholic saint following Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, who was elevated to sainthood in 1987.

The other six candidates for canonization together with Calungsod are: Blessed Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Italian priest and founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth and of the Congregation of the Humble Sister Servants of the Lord; Blessed Jacques Berthieu, French martyr and priest of the Society of Jesus; Blessed Maria del Carmen, Spanish foundress of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching; Blessed Maria Anna Cope, German religious of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse; Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, American laywoman; and Blessed Anna Schaffer, German laywoman.