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Pedro Calungsod is now the country’s second saint after Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday afternoon, October 21, included him, along with 6 others, in a list of Catholic saints. Before Calungsod, Lorenzo Ruiz was canonized in 1987. In his homily, Pope Benedict XVI said the Filipino saint “displayed deep faith and charity, and continued to catechize his many converts, giving witness to Christ by a life of purity and dedication to the Gospel. Uppermost was his desire to win souls for Christ, and this made him resolute in accepting martyrdom.” A Visayan teenage missionary who worked with the Jesuits, Calungsod was killed by Chamorro natives in the Marianas when a Chinese merchant spread gossip that the baptismal water they used was poisonous. Calungsod and his Jesuit superior Fr Diego Luis de San Vitores were speared by the natives and their bodies thrown into the sea.
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