Saint Sabas Reyes Salazar
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- Also known as
- Sabas Reyes
- Memorial
- 25 May
- Profile
- Seminarian at Guadalajara.
Ordained in the diocese of Taumalipus in 1911.
Worked in several parishes in Guadalupe.
Sent to Tototlan to escape the government's persection of the Church and its priests.
In January 1927 government troops commandeered his church; they smashed images, burned statues, and used the building as a stable.
Father Sabas's parishioners told him to escape, but he said God had placed him there for a reason, and that they should pray for divine help against the soldiers.
On 11 April 1927, just as he finished a baptism in a private home, federal troops broke in to arrest him.
Over the next two days he was severely beaten, burned, and tortured for the hiding places of other priests; he told his captors nothing.
Martyr.
- Born
- 5 December 1883
- Died
- shot at 9pm on 13 April 1927 in a cemetery outside Tototlan, 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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L'Osservatore Romano [italiano]
L'Osservatore Romano [español]
Kirken i Norge [norwegian]
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- Readings
- Viva Cristo Rey
-Saint Sabas's dying words
