Pedro Calungsod«Pedro Calúñgsod / Pedro Calonsor»
(1654–1672)
Catechist, Martyr, Missionary
Place of birth:Captaincy General of the Philippines (Spanish Empire)†
Place of death:Captaincy General of the Philippines (Spanish Empire)
Feastday
2 April
Beatification
05/03/2000 by Ioannes Paulus II
Canonisation
21/10/2012 by Benedictus XVI
Patronage
Patron of:Archdiocese of Cebu††; Philippines†††; Pury, San Antonio, Quezon††††
Patron of:altar servers, catechumens, Cebuanos, Filipino youth, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW), Visayans
†Capitanía General de Filipinas (Imperio español) / Kapitaniya Heneral ng Pilipinas (Imperyong Kastila) [1565–1898]
††Archidioecesis Nominis Iesu o Caebuana / Arkidiyosesis sa Labing Balaan nga Ngalan ni Hesus sa Sugbo / Arkidiyosesis ng Cebu / Arquidiócesis del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Cebú
†††Pilipinas
††††Barangay Pury, Bayan ng San Antonio
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia