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Yes, it is official, Blessed Pedro Calungsod, a Filipino lay catechist and martyr, will be raised to the sainthood as the decree of the congregation of saints was promulgated by the congregation of saints headed by the prefect  Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B  as approved by the Pope Benedict XVI along with other 22 personalities.  Blessed Calungsod will be the second Filipino saint to be canonized, the first one is St. Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila. The date of the canonization will be announced later.

VATICAN CITY, 19 DEC 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorised the promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes: MIRACLES - 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 (1841-1913). - Blessed Jacques Berthieu, French martyr and priest of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) (1838-1896). - Blessed Maria del Carmen (born Maria Salles y Barangueras), Spanish foundress of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching (1848-1911). - Blessed Maria Anna Cope, nee Barbara, German religious of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse U.S.A. (1838-1918). - Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, American laywoman (1656-1680). - Blessed Pedro Calungsod, Filipino lay catechist and martyr (1654-1672). - Blessed Anna Schaffer, German l...