Pedro Calungsod, Filipino catechist and sacristan; later canonized (died 1672)

Pedro Calungsod

Second Filipino saint and Martyr

Pedro Calungsod, also known as Peter Calungsod and Pedro Calonsor, was a Catholic Filipino-Visayan migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist who, along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores, proselytized and forcefully converted the indigenous people of…