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SUMMARY:Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro
DESCRIPTION:Image: The blessed Miguel Agustin Pro\, Mexican Jesuit | photo by Grentidez\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlessed Miguel Agustín Pro\nSaint of the Day for November 23\n(January 13\, 1891 – November 23\, 1927)\nClick to hear audio clip ► \nBlessed Miguel Agustín Pro’s Story\n¡Viva Cristo Rey! (Long live Christ the King!) were the last words Pro uttered before he was executed for being a Catholic priest and serving his flock. \nBorn into a prosperous\, devout family in Guadalupe de Zacatecas\, Mexico\, he entered the Jesuits in 1911\, but three years later fled to Granada\, Spain\, because of religious persecution in Mexico. He was ordained in Belgium in 1925. \nFr. Pro immediately returned to Mexico\, where he served a Church forced to go “underground.” He celebrated the Eucharist clandestinely and ministered the other sacraments to small groups of Catholics. \nHe and his brother Roberto were arrested on trumped-up charges of attempting to assassinate Mexico’s president. Roberto was spared but Miguel was sentenced to face a firing squad on November 23\, 1927. His funeral became a public demonstration of faith. He was beatified in 1988. \n\nReflection\nWhen Fr. Miguel Pro was executed in 1927\, no one could have predicted that 52 years later the bishop of Rome would visit Mexico\, be welcomed by its president and celebrate open-air Masses before thousands of people. Pope John Paul II made additional trips to Mexico in 1990\, 1993\, 1999 and 2002. Those who outlawed the Catholic Church in Mexico did not count on the deeply rooted faith of its people and the willingness of many of them\, like Miguel Pro\, to die as martyrs.
URL:https://www.thefranciscanfriars.org/event/blessed-miguel-agustin-pro/2017-11-23/
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