Pope's liturgical calendar features many public celebrations in October

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With just a few months left in the Jubilee Year 2025, Pope Leo XIV has a full calendar of public Masses scheduled for October.

Most notably, the pope will preside over Mass Oct. 19, World Mission Sunday, for the canonization of seven men and women from five countries, among them martyrs, founders of religious congregations and laypeople recognized for their heroic virtue and service.

They are:

— Blessed Ignatius Maloyan, the martyred Armenian Catholic archbishop of Mardin, which is in present-day Turkey; born in 1869, he was arrested, tortured and executed in Turkey in 1915.

— Blessed Peter To Rot, a martyred lay catechist, husband and father from Papua New Guinea. Born in 1912, he was arrested in 1945 during the Japanese occupation in World War II and was killed by lethal injection while in prison.

— Blessed Vincenza Maria Poloni, founder of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona, Italy; she lived from 1802-1855.

— Blessed Maria Rendiles Martínez, the Venezuelan founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus. Born in Caracas in 1903, she died in 1977. She will be Venezuela’s first female saint.

— Blessed Maria Troncatti, a Salesian sister born in Italy in 1883 who became a missionary in Ecuador in 1922. She died in a plane crash in 1969.

— Blessed José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, a Venezuelan doctor born in 1864. He was a Third Order Franciscan and became known as “the doctor of the poor.” He was killed in an accident in 1919 on his way to helping a patient.

— Blessed Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer born in 1841. He had been a militant opponent of the church and involved in the occult, but converted, dedicating himself to charity and to building the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei. He died in 1926.

Archbishop Diego Ravelli, the master of papal liturgical ceremonies, released Sept. 1 the list of papal liturgies that are scheduled in October. They are:

— Oct. 5, Mass in St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee of the Missions and the Jubilee of Migrants.

— Oct. 9, Mass in St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life.

— Oct. 12, Mass in St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality.

— Oct. 19, Mass in St. Peter’s Square and the canonization of seven blesseds.

— Oct. 26, Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies.

— Oct. 27, evening Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica with students attending pontifical universities.