Pedro Calungsod was a young man from the Visayas region in the Philippines: born in 1654 in the territory of Cebu, he attended the Jesuit missions as a boy until he became a catechist. Young, local natives like Pedro who were ...
Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 to Iroquois parents in the Ossernenon region, now in New York State, where just a few years earlier Jesuits Jogues, Goupil and de La Lande were martyred. When Kateri was four years old, a ...
