Saints of the Cristero War | |
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 Tomb of San Pedro de Jesus Maldonado | |
| Martyrs, Priests | |
| Born | Mexico |
| Died | 1926 to 1929 Mexico |
| Venerated in | Catholicism |
| Beatified | 25 September 1988 22 November 1992 by Pope John Paul II 20 November 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Canonized | 21 May 2000 Pope John Paul II 16 October 2016 Pope Francis |
| Feast | 21 May |
| Attributes | Crown of martyrdom Martyr's palm Rosary |
| Patronage | Persecuted Christians |
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On May 21, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized a group of 25 saints and martyrs who had died in the Mexican Cristero War. The vast majority are Catholic priests who were executed for carrying out their ministry despite the suppression under the anti-clerical laws of Plutarco Elías Calles after the revolution in the 1920s.[1][2] Priests who took up arms, however, were excluded from the process. The group of saints share the feast day of May 21.
- ^ Sacred Realism: Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative p.218
- ^ Bethell, Leslie, The Cambridge History of Latin America, p. 593, Cambridge University Press, 1986