Miracles of saint pedro calungsod biography

Few details of the early life of St. Pedro Calungsod are known. Historical research identifies Ginatilan in Cebu, Hinunangan and Hinudayan in Southern Leyte, and the Molo district of Iloilo City, as possible places of origin. Regardless of his precise birthplace, all four locations were within the territory of the Diocese of Cebu at the time of Calungsod’s martyrdom. 

In , Calungsod, then around age 14, was amongst the exemplary young catechists chosen to accompany Spanish Jesuit missionaries to the Islas de los Ladrones (“Isles of Thieves”), which have since been renamed the Marianas Islands the year before to honor both the Virgin Mary and the mission’s benefactress, Maria Ana of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain.

Calungsod accompanied the priest Diego San Vitores to Guam to catechize the native Chamorros.

Shortly after their arrival, a Chinese man named Choco, a criminal from Manila who was exiled in Guam, began sprea