Blessed Peter ToRot's date of Canonization to be set among seven others during Consistory
- Sr. Daisy Anne Lisania Augustine MSC
- Jun 4
- 2 min read
June 4, 2025
VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV will hold a meeting with cardinals to approve the canonization of Blessed Peter Torot and that of seven other people. The meeting, known as an “ordinary public consistory,” is scheduled for June 13, the Vatican announced.
Pope Leo XIV will gather the cardinals at the Vatican on June 13 to give final approval to the canonizations of eight blesseds whose causes were promoted by Pope Francis.
This event is known as an ordinary public consistory and will be the first of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. It should be noted that Pope Francis convened it at the end of February, when he was hospitalized at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, but no date was set.
This ceremony determines the final step of the canonization process through a vote to set the date on which the blessed will be proclaimed a saint.
Announcing the consistory June 4, the Vatican said the cardinals will approve the canonizations of:
— Blessed Ignatius Maloyan, the martyred Armenian Catholic archbishop of Mardin, which is in present-day Turkey; born in 1869, he was arrested, tortured and executed in Turkey in 1915.
— Blessed Peter To Rot, a martyred lay catechist, husband and father from Papua New Guinea. Born in 1912, he was arrested in 1945 during the Japanese occupation in World War II and was killed by lethal injection while in prison.
— Blessed Vincenza Maria Poloni, founder of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona, Italy; she lived from 1802-1855.
— Blessed Maria Rendiles Martínez, the Venezuelan founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus. Born in Caracas in 1903, she died in 1977. She will be Venezuela’s first female saint.
— Blessed Maria Troncatti, a Salesian sister born in Italy in 1883 who became a missionary in Ecuador in 1922. She died in a plane crash in 1969.
— Blessed José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, a Venezuelan doctor born in 1864. He was a Third Order Franciscan and became known as “the doctor of the poor.” He was killed in an accident in 1919 on his way to helping a patient.
— Blessed Frassati, was born in 1901 to a wealthy and influential family in Turin in northern Italy. He was popular, known for his practical jokes, for daily Mass attendance and for his charitable work with the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He contracted polio, probably from one of the people he was helping, and died in 1925 at the age of 24.
— Blessed Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer born in 1841. He had been a militant opponent of the church and involved in the occult, but converted, dedicating himself to charity and to building the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei. He died in 1926.
Credit: Holy See Press Office
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