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    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...
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    The Cristero War (Spanish: La Guerra Cristera), also known as the Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada [la kɾisˈtjaða], was a widespread struggle in central...
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  • of people and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints. According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision. Many of the...
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    José Sánchez del Río (category Cristero War)
    consistory on March 15, 2016, and he was canonized a saint on October 16, 2016. The Cristero War began when the government began eliminating church privileges...
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  • (through canonization) from the Catholic Church: Christianity portal Saints portal Biography portal History portal Christianity in the 20th century Vatican beatifies...
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    the anti-clerical persecutions of the Cristero War. Beatified and later canonized by Pope John Paul II along with 24 other saints and martyrs of the Cristero...
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  • Manuel Moralez (category Cristero War)
    Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one of 25 Saints of the Cristero War. Moralez was born on 8 February 1898 in the village of Mesillas 22 kilometers south from...
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    Cristóbal Magallanes Jara (category Cristero War)
    martyr who was killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War. He had faced trumped-up charges of inciting rebellion. Cristóbal Magallanes...
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    directed by Dean Wright and written by Michael Love, based on the events of the Cristero War. It stars Andy García, Eva Longoria, Oscar Isaac, Rubén Blades...
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    submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, quoted some of the conversations with Jesus regarding the Divine Mercy devotion. At the age of 20 years...
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    David Roldán Lara (category Cristero War)
    1926) was a Mexican layman who was killed during the Cristero War. A pro-Catholic activist during the anticlerical period under President Plutarco Elías...
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    Brigida; c. 451 – 525) is the patroness saint (or 'mother saint') of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with Patrick and Columba. According...
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  • refusing to convert to Islam. Saints of the Cristero War: 25 Catholic saints and martyrs who died in the Mexican Cristero War. Uganda Martyrs: 23 Anglican...
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    be promoted instead. The Cristero War was a widespread struggle in central and western Mexico in response to the implementation of secularist and anticlerical...
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  • Carlo Acutis (category English people of Italian descent)
    of Milan opened the cause for canonization. The campaign gained momentum on May 13, 2013, when the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued a nihil...
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    1909. 12 February 2019 "Site of the Martyrdom of the 26 Saints of Japan", Visit Nagasaki Kennedy, Thomas. "Nagasaki." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 10...
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    David Galván Bermúdez (category Cristero War)
    was killed during the Cristero War. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one of 25 Martyrs of the Cristero War. David Galván was born...
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    Cydonia, 1922 Manuel Gómez González, 1924 Adílio Daronch, 1924 Saints of the Cristero War 1926–1927, including: Miguel Pro, 1927 Cristóbal Magallanes Jara...
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    Michael J. McGivney (category Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe alumni)
    to sainthood Promulgation of Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, 05.27.2020 (in Italian) Portals:  Saints  Catholicism  Biography  United...
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    More than 400 martyrs of Japan have been recognized with beatification by the Catholic Church, and 42 have been canonized as saints. Christian missionaries...
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    1537 Saint Peter Healing Agatha, by the Caravaggio-follower Giovanni Lanfranco, c. 1614 List of Catholic saints Saint Agatha of Sicily, patron saint archive...
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    Argentina Saints portal List of Christian women of the patristic age List of Eastern Orthodox saints List of Roman Catholic saints Saint Paraskevi, a...
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    2018-03-16. "St. Agnes Library". Of Saint Agnes in "Ælfric's Lives of Saints", by Ælfric of Eynsham London, Pub. for the Early English text society, by...
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    every 21 January, the Feast of Saint Agnes. The pallia are given by the Pope to the new metropolitan archbishops on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul...
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  • removal of most of the anticlerical provisions from the constitution, a move which passed the legislature in 1992. Saints of the Cristero War José Sánchez...
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    [Canonization of Saints by the Russian Orthodox Church – 5. Canonization of Saints from 1894–1917] (in Russian). Азбука веры (ABC of Faith). Rhoads (2000)...
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    most popular saints in the history of the church, although she was obscure during her lifetime. Pope Pius X called her "the greatest saint of modern times"...
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    die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had...
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  • the Cristero War, two of whom were named David David of Munktorp, 11th-century missionary to Sweden David of Augsburg David Livingstone David IV of Georgia...
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  • The 1926 Calles Law separating church and state in Mexico led to the Cristero War in which over 3,000 priests were exiled or assassinated, churches desecrated...
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