{"id":83421,"date":"2026-06-07T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83421"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:29:54","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-canonises-papua-new-guineas-first-catholic-saint-peter-torot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-leo-xiv-canonises-papua-new-guineas-first-catholic-saint-peter-torot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV Canonizes Papua New Guinea&#8217;s First Catholic Saint Peter ToRot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>ABC (AU):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/ac36f47b2b060f4198772a7732895048?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=868&amp;cropW=1543&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=485\" alt=\" Peter ToRot illustration.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Papua New Guinea has its first saint after Pope Francis approved the canonization of local preacher Peter ToRot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Pope Leo XIV canonized the PNG catechist at a mass before an estimated 55,000 people in St Peter&#8217;s Square. Born at Rakunai village on the island of East New Britain in 1912, Peter ToRot led a Catholic mission during the Japanese occupation in World War II. He was arrested and held in a Japanese prison in 1945 for practicing Catholicism and was given an injection that reportedly killed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC (AU): Papua New Guinea has its first saint after Pope Francis approved the canonization of local preacher Peter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83425,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83421\/revisions\/83425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}