Pope to declare 35 new saints on Sunday
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| Four tapestries of 35 new saints-to-be drape the facade of St.Peter's Basilica in Rome, ahead of the Oct.15 canonization ceremony by Pope Francis on Sunday, Oct.15, 2017. |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will declare 33 martyrs
and 2 others from Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Italy, as the
Catholic Church’s new saints on Sunday at a Canonization Mass in Rome’s
St. Peter’s Square.
They include 30 so-called “Matryrs of Natal”,
including priests and lay people, who were killed in 1645 in a wave of
anti-Catholic persecution by Dutch Calvinists in Natal, Brazil.
Another group of 3 indigenous martyrs from Mexico -
Cristobal, Antonio and Juan – known as the "Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala"
will also be canonized. Aged between 12 and 13, the children were among
the first indigenous Catholics of Mexico who were killed between 1527 and 1529
for refusing to renounce their faith and return to their ancient
traditions.
Among the new saints will also be two European
priests. One of them is Spanish Piarist Father, Manuel Míguez
González, the founder of the Daughters of the Divine Shepherdess, or the
Calasanzian Institute. He died in 1925. The other is Italian
Cappuchin priest, Fr. Angelo da Acri, who died in 1739.
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