Limited P50 Saint Pedro bills on Apr. 4
THE P50 commemorative bills bearing the image of Saint Pedro Calungsod is more than just a collector’s item.
THE P50 commemorative bills bearing the image of Saint Pedro Calungsod is more than just a collector’s item.
President Benigno Aquino III, Vice President Jejomar Binay and Interior Secretary Mar Roxas on Friday led other government officials and more than a million devotees in a National Thanksgiving Mass for the canonization of St. Pedro Calungsod.
Wilmark Recomes was only 16 when he first portrayed the role of Pedro Calungsod, the Visayan teenage martyr who was elevated to sainthood in a Vatican ceremony on Oct. 20.
Age should not be a hindrance to serving God, the bishop of the Diocese of Pasig said, as the city welcomed the image of St. Pedro Calungsod yesterday.
The legacy of San Pedro Calungsod doesn’t end with his canonization.
Church bells pealed across the Catholic Philippines Sunday as millions attended special Masses to celebrate the naming of the country’s second saint, a young missionary killed over 340 years ago.
A second miracle attributed to late pope John Paul II has been reported and he could be made a saint soon, said Italy’s Panorama weekly on Thursday, citing documents sent to the Vatican.
The feast day of Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino saint, is celebrated every September 28. Martyred in 1637, he was part of a missionary group to Japan whose members were tortured and made to renounce Christianity. He chose death rather than abandon his faith. Born in Binondo, Manila, Ruiz was beatified by Pope John Paul [...]
