{"id":50198,"date":"2017-10-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/10\/13\/pope-francis-canonizes-the-first-martyrs-from-the-americas-three-children-killed-in-1527-1529\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T06:00:00","slug":"pope-francis-canonizes-the-first-martyrs-from-the-americas-three-children-killed-in-1527-1529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/10\/13\/pope-francis-canonizes-the-first-martyrs-from-the-americas-three-children-killed-in-1527-1529\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis canonizes the first martyrs from the Americas, three children killed in 1527, 1529"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis <strong>is canonizing 34 new saints this Sunday<\/strong>. Among them are three Mexican children, who were the first martyrs from the Americas. Their names were Crist\u00f3bal, Antonio and Juan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSGR. JULIO C\u00c9SAR SALCEDO AQUINO<br \/>\nBishop of Tlaxcala (Mexico)<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cThey are the first martyrs from Mexico and the first martyrs from the Americas. In 1527, Crist\u00f3bal died, and in 1529 Antonio and Juan died. It happened before the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which were in 1531.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Julio C\u00e9sar Salcedo is the bishop of Tlaxcala, the city of the three indigenous children and martyrs, where their memory lives on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSGR. JULIO C\u00c9SAR SALCEDO AQUINO<br \/>\nBishop of Tlaxcala (Mexico)<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cCrist\u00f3bal, began to evangelize to his family, to his father, and after insisting for so long, his father got annoyed. One of his wives desired that her son would be the heir, and persuaded him to kill Crist\u00f3bal. Antonio and Juan have a different story. They knew of Crist\u00f3bal\u2019s death. They went with the missionaries to evangelize and bring the catechism to the towns. Amidst the destruction of idols and everything, they also find death, martyrdom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another new saint is Spanish priest Faustino M\u00edguez, who founded the Daughters of the Divine Shepherd in 1855 to take care of little girls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FR. ANDR\u00c9S VALENCIA HENAO<br \/>\nPostulator General of the Piarist Fathers<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>'He could see the need of the woman who was not heard, who was not taken into account. He saw that within itself there was a call to provide them with education and training.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MAR\u00cdA JOS\u00c9 SOTELO IGLESIAS<br \/>\nCalasancio Institute Daughters of the Divine Shepherd<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>'The perspective of a woman is very important. She is considered the apostle of society, the bearer of peace in the family, the most important part of society because of what they contribute to the education of children.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other new saints are martyrs from Brazil, led by Jesuit Andr\u00e9 de Soveral, murdered in July 1645 by Dutch soldiers. Also in that group is Fr. Ambrosio Francisco Ferro and lay Mateo Moreira, killed for their faith along with 27 other people.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He will also canonize martyrs from Brazil and Spanish priest Faustino M\u00edguez on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gG9Fzxo-ZbE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwcanonizzazionieng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwcanonizzazioniint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}