Canonization of 7 Blessed on 21 October at Vatican
October 16, 2012:Pope Benedict XVI will canonize Seven Blessed persons on
Sunday, 21st October 2012, at St. Peter's Square said a communique issued
on Monday by Monsignor Guido Marini, Master of Papal Liturgical Celebrations, issued
on Monday. The blessed are: Father JAMES Berthieu, professed member of the
Society of Jesus, and a martyr; PETER Calungsod, lay catechist and martyr; Father
JOHN THE BAPTIST Piamarta, founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth
and the Humble Servants of the Lord;MARIA CARMEN Y Barangueras Salles, founder, Conceptionist
Missionary Sisters of Education; ANNA MARIA COPE, professed religious of the Congregation
of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Syracuse; Caterina Tekakwitha,
and ANNA SCHÄFFER, two lay women.