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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.

Pope Leo XIV canonizes 7 new saints, including first from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea

Oct 19, 2025

By Courtney Mares

Pope Leo XIV declared seven new saints before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s Square at the canonization Mass... Read more

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.

Meet the 7 saints Pope Leo XIV will canonize on Oct. 19

Oct 18, 2025

By Francesca Pollio Fenton, Courtney Mares

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

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

Pope Francis approves decree to advance sainthood causes of 5 people

Mar 31, 2025

By Kristina Millare

Among those to be canonized are Blessed Peter To Rot of Papua New Guinea, Blessed Ignatius Shoukrallah Maloyan of Turkey,... Read more