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Thousands of people line the road to see the official image of Blessed Pedro Calungsod during a motorcade from Cebu City to the Mactan Airport for a flight to Rome, 16 October 2012. Calungsod, a Visayan martyr, will be canonized at the Vatican this coming Sunday.
(Sammy Navaja)
www.cbcpnews.com
(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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