From The Catholic Herald:
Pope Leo XIV is to canonise seven blesseds on 19 October, among them a former Satanic priest.
The Holy See Press Office confirmed earlier this year, on 13 June, that the canonization would take place following the decision at the first consistory of the papacy. The seven blesseds to be canonised include two Venezuelans: José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, the physician widely revered as the “doctor of the poor”, and María del Carmen Rendiles Martínez, founder of the Sisters Slaves of Jesus. Also included are Ignazio Choukrallah Maloyan, an Armenian bishop martyred during the Ottoman genocide; Peter To Rot, a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea executed under Japanese occupation; Vincenza Maria Poloni, founder of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona; and Maria Troncatti, a Salesian missionary to Ecuador’s Indigenous Shuar people. However, it is the inclusion of Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer who once served as a Satanic priest before his dramatic conversion to Catholicism, that has drawn particular attention.