Seven new saints (2012)
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Seven new saints to be canonized in the fall of 2012:
- Marianne Cope, German religious of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse, N.Y.
- Kateri Tekakwitha, Native American laywoman.
- Jacques Berthieu, French martyr in Madagascar and priest of the Society of Jesus.
- Pedro Calungsod, catechist of the Jesuit Mission to the Marianas.
- Maria del Carmen, Spanish founder of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching.
- Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Italian priest and founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth and of the Congregation of the Humble Sister Servants of the Lord.
- Anna Schäffer, German laywoman.