Three new saints for Catholic Church in October

(February 21, 2011) Two Italians and a Spaniard will be the Catholic Church’s newest saints when Pope Benedict XVI will canonize them in the Vatican on October 23 this year. The decision on the date of their canonization was taken by Pope Benedict XVI during an ordinary public consistory in the Vatican on Monday. The three are Blessed Guido Maria Conforti, Blessed Luigi Guanella and Blessed Bonifacia Rodríguez de Castro.
Italian archbishop Guido Maria Conforti who died in 1931 had wanted to follow the example of St. Francis Xavier, the Jesuit who took the message of Christ to Asia. But he was unable to travel to the mission fields for health reasons, so instead he founded the Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions (also known as the Xaverian missionaries).
Blessed Luigi Guanella of Italy who died in 1915 was a great friend of Don Bosco, and wanted to join the Salesians, but instead was recalled to the diocese by the Bishop of Como. He later founded two congregations - the Servants of Charity and the Institute of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence - both of which helped the marginalized during the industrial revolution.
Blessed Bonifacia Rodríguez de Castro who died 1905, was a nun from Salamanca in Spain who worked for the social advancement of women workers. She founded the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, and created the "Nazareth workshop" to help poor or unemployed women. Like many founders of religious institutes, Mother Bonifacia faced strong hostility and at one point was excluded from her own congregation, after which she founded the workshop, which she managed almost until her death in 1905.