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After the canonization of the seven new Saints in Saint Peters Square in Rome on Sunday October 19. 2025, Pope Leo XIV addressed the pilgrims who traveled from all over the world for the event. He described the celebration in which saints were canonized as one that reminded us that the communion of the church embraced all the faithful, across space and time, in every language and culture, uniting us as the people of God, the body of Christ, and the living temple of the Holy Spirit.

Today we are looking at Saint Maria Troncatti, FMA (1883-1969). She was born in Brescia, Italy. Early in her life she expressed a desire to become a religious sister. In 1908 she made her profession as a member of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters). After she took a course in health care, she served as a nurse during World War I. This training would serve her well in her future assignments.

Saint Ignatius Maloyan (1869-1915), the Armenian Catholic Bishop in Mardin Turkey, was among 1.5 million Armenians who died in the great genocide of 1915.

On Saturday November 1, 2025, Pope Leo XIV proclaimed St. John Henry Newman the thirty-eighth Doctor of the Church. Newman spent the first forty years of his life as a distinguished minister in the Church of England. In time, he became a noteworthy leader of the High Church Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church. His research on the development of doctrine led him to become a member of the Catholic Church. After studies in Rome, he was ordained a Catholic priest and returned to England to establish the oratory of Saint Philip Neri in working class Birmingham (England). His writings were enormously influential in combating anti Catholic prejudice in England.