MANILA, Philippines - After the sung-through musical Lorenzo in 2013, produced by Christopher de Leon and with music by Ryan Cayabyab, about the life and passion of San Lorenzo Ruiz in Japan, it is ...

Cebu's son has come home. Last Friday, Cebu held a National Thanksgiving Mass, to welcome back the statue San Pedro Calungsod after it was canonized last Oct. 21 by Pope Benedict XVI. An estimated 1.2 ...

Manila, Philippines—The “San Pedro Calungsod, The Musical” cast recording, featuring 18 songs by Antonino Rommel Ramilo, with contributions from Gerald Santos, who also played the title role in the ...

Fresh from his triumphs on the United Kingdom and international tour of “Miss Saigon” (where he played Thuy) and the Manila and Singapore runs of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (as ...

CEBU, Philippines - Two years ago, Filipinos got their second saint and Visayans felt proud having their first saint canonized. The canonization of San Pedro Calungsod was remembered yesterday in a ...

JM de Guzman (right) is cast as Pedro Calungsod in the upcoming filmbio San Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir. It is written and directed by Francis Villacorta (left). JM de Guzman has been chosen to ...

Ever since Pedro Calungsod was canonized in 2012, the life of the country’s second Filipino saint (after Lorenzo Ruiz) has been turned into a movie, two musicals and a TV docudrama. The latest is “San ...

San Pedro Calungsod The Musical is about the life and death of Saint Pedro Calungsod (1654 - 1672), a young Filipino missionary and the second Filipino saint. The musical features the book and lyrics ...

The function attended by several members of the Couples for Christ, international lay movement. The special devotion of a family on the island pivotal to dedicate the place of worship to the saint and ...

The Philippines gains a new Saint this October 21 in Pedro Calungsod. Calungsod will only be the second Filipino officially declared a Saint after Pope John Paul II canonized Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila in ...

The biographical film, Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir, will finally make it to the big screen after two to three years of intense research by director/writer Francis O. Villacorta. The film, which ...

Pope Benedict XVI’s approval of the canonization of Pedro Calungsod about 12 years after he was beatified by Pope John Paul II is providential in many ways. For the Catholic hierarchy in the ...