Watch the Canonization of Pedro Calungsod Live Streaming Video






Watch the 2nd Filipino saint to be canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 20, 2012 at the Vatican in Rome Italy. Saint Pedro Calungsod also known as Pedro Calonsorwas a young Roman Catholic Filipino saint, migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist, who along with Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, suffered religious persecution and martyrdom in Guam for their missionary work in 1672. 



While in Guam, Calungsod preached Christianity to the Chamorro people through catechism, while baptizing both infants, children and adults at the risk and expense of being persecuted and eventually murdered. Through Calungsod and San Vitores' missionary efforts, many native Chamorros converted to Roman Catholicism. 

Calungsod was formally beatified on 5 March 2000 by Blessed Pope John Paul II. On 18 February 2012, Pope Benedict XVI officially announced that Calungsod will be canonised on 21 October 2012.[5]Calungsod was canonized on 21 October 2012.

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