Want to get to know the 16 new cardinal electors? Here are their remarkable stories

Over the last several months, Aleteia has told each of their fascinating stories.

Have a look below:

Roche (curia): The future Cardinal Roche, Pope Francis’ liturgical right-hand man

You Heung-sik (curia): The future cardinal helping the priests of the whole globe

Vérgez Alzaga (curia): After 50 years of service, now he’ll wear the red hat

Aveline (France): French-Algerian cardinal elector comes from a “city with a message” embraced by Francis

Steiner (Brazil): A red hat for the Amazon basin

McElroy (USA): Is McElroy's red hat a message on migrants?

Cantoni (Italy): Cardinal Cantoni, an Italian in red for a martyred diocese

Baawobr (Ghana): A call to serve: New cardinal of Ghana sees sudden public prominence

Marengo (Mongolia): Meet the youngest cardinal of the Catholic Church

Costa (Brazil): Ideology masks people’s real problems, warns new cardinal of Brazil’s capital

Flores (Paraguay): 1st Paraguayan cardinal: A fascinating history linked to Boston’s archbishop

Okpaleke (Nigeria): The new cardinal who had to fight his flock to become a bishop

Ferrão (India): After 465 years, Goa receives its first cardinal

da Silva (East Timor): The 1st cardinal for this almost entirely Catholic, young nation

Poola (India): Meet the first “untouchable” cardinal: Anthony Poola was born a Dalit in India

Goh Seng Chye (Singapore): Meet Singapore’s 1st cardinal