Regardless of this week’s weather, timing and sequencing are everything as far as the fluvial and foot processions for the arrival of the Saint Pedro Calungsod image in Cebu City on Friday is concerned.

Bring an umbrella for the glaring heat or a downpour.

WITH barely a week to go before the national thanksgiving Mass for St. Pedro Calungsod, the Cebu Archdiocese is faced with a major problem.

If you want to attend the Nov. 30 national thanksgiving Mass for St. Pedro Calungsod, better plan ahead.

A city-wide special gun ban will be enforced from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 for the San Pedro Calungsod thanksgiving Mass, said Cebu city police director Ramon Melvin Buenafe.

Work is underway in a Mandaue city dockyard to transform a private boat into a Spanish galleon for the Nov. 30 fluvial procession for the thanksgiving celebration of St. Pedro Calungsod.

POLITICIANS were urged to observe “delicadeza” and avoid campaigning during the national thanksgiving celebration for Saint Pedro Calungsod at the South Road Properties (SRP) on November 30.

THE long road to the canonization of St. Pedro Calungsod began with a challenge to prove his actual existence.

The bells of St. Gregory The Great Parish Church pealed at 4 a.m. to wake up the 
residents and remind them of the historic day ahead

It may take decades for the Philippines to produce another saint but some 
Filipino bishops are hopeful that the canonization of Pedro Calungsod would spark an awareness of the call to holiness in the country. 

TODAY'S canonization of the young Visayan martyr Pedro Calungsod can increase the attraction of Cebu to local and foreign visitors

The holy mass at the archdiocesan shrine of Blessed Pedro Calungsod ended past 3
pm followed a by a short procession to the Spiritual Pastoral Formation Year
(SPFY) covered court for the live coverage of the canonization.

The early morning rain didn't stop devotees from heading to the Blessed Pedro Calungsod parish church in Cantabaco, Toledo City

THE sainthood on Oct. 21 of the young lay missionary Blessed Pedro Calungsod is "a moment of great pride" and a boost to the declining Catholic Church, according to a Jesuit priest. 

Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal blessed the boxed sculptures which will go to the first set of donors who gave P25,000 each to support church preparations for the canonization on Oct. 21 in Rome and the national thanksgiving celebration on Nov. 30 in Cebu City. 

The Archdiocese of Cebu is appealing for more assistance for the templete and ground work being prepare for the Nov. 30 national thanksgiving Mass for Pedro Calungsod’s sainthood. Fr. Raul Gallego, chairman of the committee on venue, said the Cebu ..

The southwestern Cebu town claims to be the hometown of Calungsod. The Calungsod clan are mostly living in barangay Cagsing.
Tracing Calungsod  The municipal government of Ginatilan has created a committee to trace the Calungsod family tree.

Instead of being treated as cargo, a three-foot image of the Visayan martyr Pedro Calungsod will be brought to Rome as a “passenger” for the Oct. 21 canonization rites. The wooden sculpture of the soon-to-be declared saint will leave Cebu at 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 16, said Fr. Charles Jayme, official custodian of the Calungsod image.

In preparation for the canonization of the first Visayan saint, a novena mass is scheduled to run at the Archdiocesan Shrine of Blessed Pedro Calungsod starting on Oct. 12.

Another church in honor of Visayan martyr Pedro Calungsod will eventually be established in Cebu.

WITH a chisel on his left hand and a hammer on the other, 52-year-old wood carver Ramon Gillangao began pounding on a tree log in front of him.

THE Cebu Archdiocese welcomed the decision of President Benigno Aquino III to declare Oct. 21 a national day of celebration for the canonization of Visayan martyr Pedro Calungsod.

But 74-year-old Chari Gerinea could only thank Divine Providence for the money given to her by a friend to buy a roundtrip ticket to Rome, Italy for the Oct. 21 canonization of Visayan 

Before his martyrdom in Guam in 1672, the young Pedro Calungsod travelled from one place to the other to propagate God's message.

Angelic voices of young Cebuanos will be heard singing during the canonization rites in Rome for Visayan teenage martyr Pedro Calungsod. 

Rites at 4:30 p.m. PH time; Tickets on ‘first come, first served’ basis  Pilgrims off to Rome were reminded to arrive early in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, Oct. 21 since “there are no reserved seats.”

SINCE Friday, Oct. 12, daily novena Masses in the runup to the canonization of Blessed Pedro Calungsod have brought people to his shrine at D. Jakosalem Street in Cebu City.

Devotees will send off the official image of  Pedro Calungsod who heads for Rome today  on a Cathay Pacific flight.

As the day of his sainthood draws closer, more  devotees are visiting the shrine dedicated to Visayan youth who will be declared the  second Filipino saint.

Packed in a tall styrofoam box and wrapped in velvet, the statue occupied seat number 30-A of Cathay Pacific with Fr. Charles Jayme, the custodian, seated beside it.

AT the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral, 37-year-old Shiela Padilla arrived alone in her wheelchair.