Seven new saints (2012)

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.