Google+Manila, Philippines – Filipinos worldwide celebrate the first feast day of San Pedro Calungsod today. San Pedro Calungsod is the country’s second saint. He was canonized on October 21 last year by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
The feast day of the 17th century Visayan catechist and martyr was moved from April 2 to March 23 as the day falls within the Easter octave (Easter Tuesday) that takes precedence over feasts and memorials of saints.
Feast masses and solemn processions will be held today in many Catholic churches in key cities and provinces, particularly in the first four ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the country at the time of his martyrdom in 1672, the Archdiocese of Manila and the Dioceses of Cebu, Nueva Caceres, and Nueva Segovia.
Christina I. Hermoso
Manila Bulletin
(c. 1654 – 2 April 1672) was a young Roman Catholic Filipino migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist, who along with Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, suffered religious persecution and martyrdom on Guam for their missionary work in 1672. Through Calungsod and San Vitores' missionary efforts, many native Chamorros converted to Roman Catholicism.
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