On
Sunday, 21 October 2012 in St. Peter's Square, some eighty thousand people
participated in a papal Mass for the canonisation of seven new saints: Jacques
Berthieu, French martyr and priest of the Society of Jesus (1838-1896); Pedro
Calungsod, Filipino lay catechist and martyr (1654-1672); Giovanni Battista
Piamarta, Italian priest and founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of
Nazareth and of the Congregation of the Humble Sister Servants of the Lord
(1841-1913); Maria del Carmen (born Maria Salles y Barangueras), Spanish
foundress of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching (1848-1911);
Marianne Cope, nee Barbara, German-American religious of the Sisters of the
Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse U.S.A. (1838-1918); Kateri Tekakwitha,
American laywoman (1656-1680), and Anna Schaeffer, German laywoman (1882-1925).
His
Holiness Pope Benedict XVI drew attention in his homily to the "happy
coincidence" between the current assembly of the Synod of Bishops on New Evangelisation,
World Mission Sunday, and the readings during the day's Mass which, he said,
show us "how to be evangelisers, called to bear witness and to proclaim
the Christian message, configuring ourselves to Christ and following His same
way of life….
"These
new saints, different in origin, language, nationality and social condition,
are united among themselves and with the whole People of God in the mystery of
salvation of Christ the Redeemer. ... May the witness of ... their lives
generously spent for love of Christ, speak today to the whole Church, and may
their intercession strengthen and sustain her in her mission to proclaim the
Gospel to the whole world", the Holy Father concluded.
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more information, please visit:
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