Pedro Calungsod

c. 1654 – April 2, 1672
July 26th, 2012

Fr. San Vitores’s canonization process remains unclear

WHILE the canonization of Blessed Pedro Calungsod is only less than three months away, the process for his companion in the Marianas Islands, however, remains unclear.

Fr. Diego Luis de San Vitores was the Spanish Jesuit priest who died with Calungsod on April 2, 1672 and was beatified in 1985.

Msgr. Ildebrando Leyson, postulator for the cause of Calungsod’s sainthood, said that the process for the beatification for San Vitores began about 10 months after his death. Read the rest of this entry