Pope Leo XIV on Sunday created seven new saints — among them a onetime Satanic priest who rediscovered his Christian faith.

Bells rang out over St Peter’s Square for the ceremony, which saw him canonise that ex-occultist priest, Bartolo Longo, alongside a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea, an archbishop killed in the Armenian genocide, a Venezuelan “doctor of the poor” and three nuns who dedicated their lives to the poor and sick.

The former Satanic priest Longo, an Italian lawyer born in 1841 and who died in 1926, rejoined Catholicism and went on to found the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii.

“Today we have before us seven witnesses, the new Saints, who, with God’s grace, kept the lamp of faith burning,” Leo told an audience the Vatican estimated at so

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