14 New Saints Canonized on World Mission Sunday

In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday October 20, the Pope declared three founders of religious orders and the 11 “Martyrs of Damascus” as saints to be venerated by the global Catholic Church, commending their lives of sacrifice and service to the Church

These are the 14 people who have  been canonized saints:

• Martyrs of Damascus, Syria (m. 1860): eleven martyr saints who were killed for refusing to renounce their Christian faith and convert to Islam. The “Martyrs of Damascus” were murdered “out of hatred for the faith” in the Franciscan Church of St. Paul in Damascus, Syria, on July 10, 1860. Eight of the martyrs were Franciscan friars — six priests and two professed religious — all missionaries from Spain (except for Father Engelbert Kolland, from Salzburg, Austria) and three were laymen, all brothers, from a Maronite Catholic family.
• Father Giuseppe Allamano (1851–1926): Blessed Giuseppe Allamano founder  of two missionary religious orders — the Consolata Missionaries and the Consolata Missionary Sisters — that went on to spread the Gospel in Kenya, Ethiopia, Brazil, Taiwan, Mongolia, and more than two dozen other countries. Allamano is being canonized after the Vatican recognized a unique medical miracle attributed to his intercession: the healing of a man, Sorino Yanomami, an Indigenous man who lived in the Amazon rainforest and  was attacked by a jaguar in the Amazon rainforest.
• Mother Elena Guerra (1835–1914), known as an “apostle of the Holy Spirit,” foundress,  in 1882, of the order of  Oblates of the Holy Spirit, a congregation of religious sisters recognized by the Church that continues today in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The Catholic Church  recognized a miracle attributed to Guerra’s intercession that involved the healing of a man named Paulo in Uberlândia, Brazil, in 2010 after he fell from a tree and ended up in a coma with a serious brain injury.
• Mother Marie-Léonie Paradis (1840–1912) a Canadian sister who founded, in 1880, the Little Sisters of the Holy Family. The miracle attributed to Paradis’ intercession involved the healing of a newborn baby girl who suffered from “prolonged perinatal asphyxia” during her birth in 1986 at a hospital in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada.

Images

• Photo by  Caleb Miller on Unsplash

Sources

• Dicastery for the Causes of Saints : 14 new Saints
• Holy Mass with Canonization and Angelus Prayer – Pope Francis (video)