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Ex-Satanic priest among seven new saints created by Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV canonized seven new saints, including an ex-Satanist, during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square attended by 70,000 people.
The former Satanic priest, Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer born in 1841 who died in 1926, rejoined Catholicism and founded the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii.
The newly canonized also include a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea, an archbishop killed in the Armenian genocide, a Venezuelan doctor of the poor, and three nuns dedicated to the poor and sick.
Pope Leo XIV referred to the new saints as witnesses who "kept the lamp of faith burning" and asked for their intercession and example.
The canonization took place on Sunday, October 19, coinciding with World Mission Sunday.
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