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A Venezuelan priest who concelebrated the canonization Mass with Pope Leo XIV celebrates his country's first saints in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19, 2025. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN

Pope Leo XIV Canonizes Seven New Saints, Including First From Venezuela and Papua New Guinea

Oct 19, 2025

Pope Leo XIV declared seven new saints before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s Square at the canonization Mass on Oct. 19. Among the new saints is St. José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, known as Venezuela's “the doctor of the poor," St. Peter To Rot, a lay catechist martyred in Papua New Guinea, and St. Bartolo Longo, a former Satanist who had a dramatic conversion and built the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii.

Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian lawyer who renounced Satanism and became “an apostle of the Rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan considered the “doctor of the poor.” Banners of the new saints are on display on St. Peter's Basilica for all to see in St. Peter's Square. / Credit: Courtney Mares / CNA

Meet the Seven Saints Pope Leo XIV Will Canonize on October 19

Oct 18, 2025

Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday, Oct. 19.

Pilgrims gather in St. Peter's Square for a Mass and canonization of 14 new saints on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Pope Francis Approves Decree to Advance Sainthood Causes of Five People, Including Papua New Guinean

Mar 31, 2025

Among those to be canonized are Blessed Peter To Rot of Papua New Guinea, Blessed Ignatius Shoukrallah Maloyan of Turkey, and Blessed María Carmen of Venezuela.

Pope Leo XIV Canonizes Seven New Saints, Including First From Venezuela and Papua New Guinea

Meet the Seven Saints Pope Leo XIV Will Canonize on October 19

Pope Francis Approves Decree to Advance Sainthood Causes of Five People, Including Papua New Guinean

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