Saint Mateo Correa Magallanes
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- Also known as
- Mateo Correa
- Memorial
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6 February
formerly 25 May
- Profile
- Attended the seminary at Zacatecas on a scholarship, beginning 12 January 1881.
Ordained on 20 August 1893.
Parish priest, assigned to Concepcion de Oro from 1898 to 1905.
Close friend of the Pro-Juarez family, he baptized Humberto Pro, and gave First Communion to Blessed Miguel Pro.
Reassigned to Colotlan from 1908 to 1910.
Following the government's repression of the Church in 1910, he went into hiding.
Assigned to Valparaiso in 1926.
Arrested while en route to a sick call; when he saw the soldiers approaching, he quickly swallowed the host to prevent desecration.
Accused of being part of the armed Cristero rebellion, he was jailed in Zacatecas, and then in Durango.
While in jail, he heard confessions from other prisoners.
When the jail's commander, General Ortiz, deamdned to know what the condemned men had said, Father Mateo refused.
Martyred for being a priest, and for refusing to break the seal of the confessional.
- Born
- 23 July 1866 at Tepechitlán, Zacatecas, Mexico
- Died
- shot on 6 February 1927 on the outskirts of Durango, Durango state, Mexico
- Beatified
- 22 November 1992 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- 21 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee of Mexico
- Additional Information
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