Pope Leo XIV held his first Ordinary Public Consistory of his pontificate on Friday, June 13, 2025, in the morning, with Cardinals giving their formal approval for the canonizations of several Blesseds. Seven of these blesseds are to be Canonized (made official Saints in the Roman Calendar) at Holy Mass on October 19, 2025. Here is a brief biography of the these 7 new Saints of the Catholic Church:
Blessed Ignatius (Shoukrallah) Maloyan, an Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin. Born on April 8, 1869 and died on June 11, 1915, was an Armenian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mardin from 1911 to 1915. After repeatedly refusing conversion to Islam, he was tortured and murdered by the Ottoman Gendarmerie during the Armenian genocide, specifically in Diyarbekir Vilayet under Mehmed Reshid. Maloyan was beatified by Pope John Paul II as a martyr in 2001. In 2025, Pope Francis approved a plan for his canonization. He will be canonized on October 19, 2025.
Blessed Peter To Rot born on 5 March 1912 and died on 7 July 1945, was a Papua New Guinea Catholic. He served as a catechist in his village and was entrusted with the leadership of the local parish during World War II when Imperial Japanese forces occupied the region and imprisoned Catholic missionaries. In response to Japanese oppression of his community, he publicly opposed their actions and continued to hold secret prayer services after the Japanese restricted him from active pastoral service. To Rot married in 1936, and he criticized Japanese attempts to encourage his people to return to the pre-Christian practice of taking multiple wives. He was executed by the Japanese in 1945. His beatification was celebrated in Papua New Guinea in 1995. His canonization will take place on October 19, 2025.
Blessed Vincenza Maria Poloni was an Italian nun who co-founded and later led the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona, dedicating her life to the sick, poor, and orphaned. Poloni, ISM born on 26 January 1802 and died 11 November 185, in religion Maria Vincenza, cofounded the Sisters of Mercy of Verona, established with Charles Steeb. Cardinal Angelo Amato, on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI, beatified Poloni in 2008 after the recognition of a miracle attributed to her intercession. She will be canonized on 19 October 2025.
Blessed Maria del Monte Carmelo Rendiles (Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez) of Venezuela, born with a physical disability. Martínez born on 11 August 1903 and died on 9 May 1977 with the religious name María Carmen, was a Venezuelan religious sister of the Servants of the Eucharist. She founded the congregation of the Servants of Jesus of Caracas. Rendiles served in leadership for the former in France, where she completed her novitiate and returned to Venezuela to found a congregation in 1965. She was its first superior general.
She left for Ecuador in 1922 and was sent among the indigenous Shuar tribe, where with two other sisters she began a difficult work of evangelization. Sister Maria died in a tragic plane crash in Sucúa on August 25, 1969. Her body rests in Macas, in the province of Morona (Ecuador). She was declared Venerable with the Decree of 8 November 2008 and raised to the glory of the blessed in Macas (Ecuador) on 24 November 2012 by the Pope’s representative, Cardinal Angelo Amato.Laymen:
Blessed Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer who converted from satanism to become a lay Dominican and founded the famous Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei. He dedicated his life to the rosary and the Virgin Mary. He was eventually awarded a papal knighthood of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He was born: February 10, 1841, Latiano, Italy Died: October 5, 1926 (age 85 years), Pompei, Italy.
Blessed José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, a universally beloved Venezuelan physician known as the “doctor of the poor” for his immense charity and free medical service to the needy in Caracas. Born on 26 October 1864 and died on 29 June 1919, he was born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, he became a highly renowned doctor, more so after his death.Known for his many acts of charity for the poor of his society, he was beatified by the Catholic Church in 2021, and his canonization was announced in early 2025, with the date later being set for 19 October 2025.
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