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#OnThisDay October 21, 2012, Canonization of Pedro Calungsod as second Filipino saint. Calungsod, the second Filipino canonized by the Roman Catholic Church after (now saint) Pope John Paul II canonized Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila in 1987.[1]

Saint Pedro Calungsod (c. 1654 - April 2, 1672) is a Filipino Roman Catholic martyr who was killed while doing missionary work in Guam in 1672 (his body had been thrown into the sea and lost). He was beatified on March 5, 2000, by Pope John Paul II. As a skilled sacristan and teacher of catechism, he was a companion of Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J. to the Marianas Islands (territory of Guam), and preached Christianity to the Chamorro people through catechesis. Through their efforts, many receive the sacraments especially that of baptism.[2]

A plot to kill Pedro and San Vitores started when a certain Choco, a Chinese who gained influence over the Macanas of Marianas Island, circulated false accusations that the missionaries were spreading poison through the ritual of the pouring of water (i.e. baptism), and through the ritual of Catholic Masses. Calungsod and Diego San Vitores were both murdered after baptizing an infant and mother who converted to the Roman Catholic faith.[2]

Few details of the early life of Calungsod (spelled Calonsor in Spanish records) are known. Historical records do not mention his exact birthplace or birth date, and merely identified him as “Pedro Calonsor, el Visayo.” Historical research identifies Ginatilan in Cebu, Hinunangan and Hinundayan in Southern Leyte, and the Molo district of Iloilo City as possible places of origin; Loboc, Bohol also makes a claim. Of these claims, the ones from Molo, Iloilo and Ginatilan, Cebu, are considered the strongest. Cardinal Ricardo Vidal †, the Archbishop Emeritus of Cebu, ruled that he will not establish a definitive judgment on his birthplace, since Spanish records only indicate the words “Pedro Calonsor, El Visayo” as his native description. Furthermore, he stated that all Visayan provinces were under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese (now Archdiocese, since 1934) of Cebu during the Filipino-Spanish era at the time of Calungsod's martyrdom.[3][4]

Pope Benedict XVI (Pope Emeritus) canonized Calungsod in Saint Peter's Square. Cardinal Ricardo Vidal †, concelebrated at the canonization Mass. Those canonized along with Calungsod were Jacques Berthieu, a French martyr and priest of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits); Giovanni Battista Piamarta, an 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; Maria del Carmen, a Spanish founder of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching; Maria Anna Cope, a German religious of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse; Kateri Tekakwitha, an American laywoman, and Anna Schaffer, a German laywoman.[1]

References:
[1] Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) Televised Broadcast
[2] “St. Pedro Calungsod”, catholic. org
[3] “Saint Pedro Calungsod”. Research Center for Iloilo. October 9, 2014
[4] “About Pedro Calungsod – Pedro Calungsod”. Sunstar Cebu, October 31, 2014

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