Faith
AC DELGADO served as Philippine Ambassador to the HOLY SEE from 1975-1982, just as his physician father, JOSE MARIA DELGADO from 1957 TO 1961. ANTONIO searched for a possible first Filipino Saint, he found a candidate martyred in Japan in the 1600s and then worked for the beatification of Lorenzo Ruiz and his companions by Pope John Paul II in Manila on 18 February 1981. It was the first time in centuries for these rites to be held outside Rome. In 1982 Delgado retired and subsequently served as Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Philippines from 1982 to 1988. He authored The MAKING OF THE FIRST FILIPINO SAINT in 1982, which was published in 1987. Delgado commissioned the Vatican Mosaic Studio to create an image of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, which is presently installed at the Altar of the Martyrdom of St. Peter at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
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