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 ...

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 ...

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.