St. Pedro Calungsod Commemorative Medal
NP ID : MB 1012
Category : Historical Event
Type : BSP Minted
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Title : St. Pedro Calungsod
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Mintage : 1,025
Mint : BSP Mint
Shape : Round
Edge : Milled
Weight : 15 gm
Diameter : 34 mm
Thickness : 2.4 mm
Quality : Brilliant Uncirculated
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Material : Nordic Gold
Metallic Composition : 89% Copper,5% Aluminium. 5% Sinc, 1% Tin
Orientation : Medallic Orientation
Packaging : Box with Literature
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Obverse : Image of St. Pedro Calungsod
Reverse : "LIFE that is offered ... FAITH that is proclaimed"
Note : LIFE that is offered ... FAITH that is proclaimed
Pedro Calungsod was a teenage native of the Visayas region of the Philippines. Very little is known about him. He was merely identified as a boy catechist, trained by some Spanish Jesuit missionaries headed by Fr. Diego Luis de San Vitores, and who went with them to the Ladrones Islands in the western North Pacific Ocean in 1668 to evangelize the Chamorros, pagan natives there. The Islands, then still part of the old Diocese of Cebu, were subsequently renamed "Marianas" by the missionaries in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of then Queen Regent of Spain Maria Ana who was the benefactress of the Mission. Pedro worked with Fr. Diego in those islands, where life was very hard, from June 15, 1668 until April 2, 1672 when both he and Fr. Diego were killed by two natives on account of the Christian faith. Pedro was described by his companions as a lad of "very good disposition and a good Catholic."
It was the beatification of Padre Diego Luis de San Vitores that brought the memory of Pedro to our day in 1994. Then Cebu Archbishop Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal asked permission from the Vatican to initiate a cause for beatification and canonization of Pedro Calungsod. In March 1997, the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved the Acta of the Diocesan Process for the Beatification of Pedro Calungsod. He was formally beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 5, 2000 at St. Peter's Square. Blessed Pedro Calungsod was one of the first martyrs to be beatified in the Great Jubillee Year 2000.
On December 19, 2011, the Holy See officially approved the miracle qualifying Calungsod for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church. The recognized miracle happened in 2002, when a Leyte woman who was pronounced clinically dead by accredited physicians two hours after a heart attack was revived after a doctor prayed for Calungsod's intercession.
Pedro Calungsod was officially canonized by Pope Benedict XVI at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on October 21, 2012. Now, the Roman Catholic calendar of Martyrology celebrates St. Pedro Calungsod's feast, along with Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, every 2nd day of April.
St. Pedro Calungsod, the second Filipino saint is a gift of God to our nation and people.
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