October 21, 2012. (Romereports.com)(- ONLY VIDEO-) Surrounded by thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square, the Pope officially named seven new saints of the Catholic Church.


 

They include Jacques Berthieu, a Jesuit priest and martyr, Pedro Calungsod, a teenage lay catechist and martyr.  Giovanni Battista Piamarta, founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Maria Carmen Sallés, founder of the Conceptionists Missionary Sisters of Education; Marianne Cope, a religious from the Diocese of Syracuse in New York, Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Saint and Anna Shaffer, a lay woman from Germany.