St John Paul II beatified him on 17 January 1995 in Port Moresby. Last year, the bishops of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands requested to dispense Peter To Rot’s cause from a miracle.

Peter To Rot was born in 1912 in Rakunai, a village on the Melanesian island of New Britain, today an eastern province of the independent nation of Papua New Guinea ... at St Paul's Mission ...

Pope Francis has approved the decree for the canonization of Blessed Peter To Rot, a layman from Papua New Guinea martyred for the faith ... In 1930, at the age of 18, Rot was enrolled at St. Paul's ...

Blessed Peter To Rot, who is set to become Papua New Guinea's first saint, died after being poisoned in 1945 Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to publish the decree for the canonization of catechist and martyr Peter Tor Rot, who will thus become ...

Pope Francis, who is still regaining the ability to speak, authorised the publication of the decree that he has cleared the path to canonisation for Papua New Guinea’s martyred layman Peter To Rot.