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an ex satanists and occultists One of the seven people who have been made a new saint Pope Leo XIV.
Bartolo Longo was canonized during a ceremony at the Vatican on Sunday, along with a layman who was assassinated in 1945 for advocating monogamy.
About 70,000 people attended the Annunciation when the images of the seven saints were lowered from the windows above the square. The first American Pope emerged from St. Peter’s Basilica wearing a formal white cassock and a miter on his head.
“Today we have before us seven witnesses, new saints who, by the grace of God, kept the lamp of faith burning,” Leo said at the Vatican. “May his intercession aid us in our trials and may his example inspire us in our common call to holiness.”
Longo was born in 1841 and died in 1926, having been ordained as a Satanic priest before later converting to Catholicism.
Longo was born to parents who were devout Catholics. His father died in 1851 and his mother remarried a lawyer. Longo studied law at the University of Naples in 1961.
During Longo’s time at the university, the Church in Europe was competing with the popularity of Spiritualism and witchcraft, meaning that many students participated in public demonstrations against the Pope and belief in witchcraft.
After some study and several spiritual experiences Longo was ordained as a Satanist. A decade later, Longo abandoned Spiritualism and became a Dominican tertiary in 1871, taking the name Rosario.
he rejoined Roman Catholicism and founded the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary pompeii,
In 1873 Longo began the restoration of a dilapidated church and sponsored a festival in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary. Alleged miracles began to be reported and Longo preached the rosary until his death in 1926 at the age of 85.
Longo advocated social justice throughout his life. He established schools, orphanages and charitable institutions. In particular, he focused on the children of prisoners because he believed in the power of education and kindness to change lives.
Another notable New Saint was Peter Too Rot, born in 1912 and died in 1945, a lay preacher in Papua New Guinea who was martyred during the Japanese occupation in World War II.
Rott was left in charge of the village after the Catholic priest was taken to a Japanese labor camp. Despite Japanese persecution, To Rot worked in secret to maintain the faith. He was eventually arrested and sent to a manual labor camp before being executed by lethal injection for his martyrdom of the Catholic faith.
Other new saints include Ignatius Choukrallah Maloyan (1869–1915), José Gregoría Hernández (1864–1919), Maria Troncatti (1883–1969), María del Carmen Randles Martínez (1903–1977) and Vincenza Maria Poloni (1802–1855).