Saint Pedro Calungsod (Latin: Petrus Calungsod Italian: Pietro Calungsod; (July 21 1654 – April 2 1672) also known as Peter Calungsod or Pedro Calonsor is a Roman Catholic young Filipino blessed and was a migrant sacristan and missionary catechist who along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores suffered religious persecution and martyrdom in Guam for their missionary work in 1672.While in Guam Calungsod preached Christianity to the Chamorro people through catechism while baptizing infants children and adults at the risk and expense of being persecuted and eventually murdered.
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