Blessed Pedro Calungsod is Filipino citizen. Why I include here? Because he is a Cebuano. All Cebuano are very proud that one Filipino and Cebuano was beautified.
Now, in year 2012. As expected, Blessed Pedro Calungsod will canonized as saint. If that will happen, Blessed Pedro Calungsod would be the second Filipino and first Cebuano saint in the history. He will be called Saint Pedro Calungsod after the canonization.
In the business side, the Blessed Pedro Calungsod statue is now selling wise and still producing more statues and more prayer book for Blessed Pedro Calungsod.
As we remember the first Filipino saint is San Lorenzo Ruiz which a farmer in the province. Hope, Blessed Pedro Calungsod would be the second Filipino Saint. If Blessed Pedro Calungsod will canonized, the recent Pope Benedict XVI would be the one to host the canonization.
To all Cebuano's and Filipinos out there reading this post. Let's pray so that Blessed Pedro Calungsod will be canonized this year 2012. Everything is possible as long as we believe to the power of the Holy Spirit.
It's hard to declared the blessed to be saint. They need to have a miracles happen without the explanation of science.
As one miracle happen,
The authorized miracle of Blessed Pedro Calungsod reportedly happened in 2003 at a Cebu hospital when a woman who was clinically pronounced dead for two hours was allegedly brought back to life through the intercession of Calungsod.
A short brief background of Blessed Pedro Calungsod,
A young martyr
Calungsod, together with companion Blessed Diego San Vitores, was killed while doing missionary work in Guam in 1672. He was 17 years old then. Through their missionary efforts, many were converted to the Roman Catholic Church through the Sacrament of Baptism.
A plot to murder Calungsod and San Vitores started through false accusations that the missionaries were spreading poison through the ritual of the pouring of water or baptism. They were both caught and murdered after baptizing a mother and her child.
Because of his association with the Chamorro natives of Guam, Calungsod is often portrayed with a crucifix and a palm leaf.
Calungsod, who was described by Vatican as a lay catechist and a martyr, was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000.
The other six candidates for canonization together with Calungsod are: Blessed 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; Blessed Jacques Berthieu, French martyr and priest of the Society of Jesus; Blessed Maria del Carmen, Spanish foundress of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching; Blessed Maria Anna Cope, German religious of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse; Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, American laywoman; and Blessed Anna Schaffer, German laywoman.
VIVA! St. Pedro Calungsod
we are PROUD of YOU!