The Church “in her duty to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world,” Pope Benedict XVI prayed, “may be strengthened and sustained” by the intercession of the seven new saints who have been canonized.
At a bright Mass on October 21 in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope addressed tens of thousands of people while raising seven men and women to the altars.
Jacques Berthieu, Pedro Calungsod, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Maria Carmen Sallés y Barangueras, Marianne Cope, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Anna Schäffer were some of them.
Both the American delegation, which was in attendance for the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first native American saint, and the Filipino delegation, here in honor of Pedro Calungsod, was incredibly large.
How many saints did Pope Benedict XVI canonize?
From 2005 to 2013, Pope Benedict XVI’s seven-year pontificate saw the canonization of 45 saints: Pope Leo XIII’s list of saints who have been canonized.
