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What the Executioner Saw: The Death of Blessed Miguel Pro, by Dawn Beutner – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

What the Executioner Saw: The Death of Blessed Miguel Pro, by Dawn Beutner

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: All Live to Him
November 23, 2024
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(Blessed) José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (1891-1927), with his arms open in the form of a cross, prepares to be shot by the squad on November 23, 1927. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, Nov. 23, 2024

Dawn Beutner is the author of The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World (Ignatius Press, 2023), and Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year also from Ignatius Press. …

 

His last words were “Viva Cristo Rey!” or “Long live Christ the King!”

When the five members of his firing squad took aim at José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez on November 23, 1927, what did they see? What would a Mexican soldier have noticed about the man now known as Blessed Miguel Pro?

It is very rare for a Catholic saint to be photographed in the final moments of his life. While the journalists and photographers who showed up to watch Miguel’s execution were simply hoping for something newsworthy for the front pages of their newspapers, the Mexican authorities were hoping for something else. They wanted the Cristeros rebels throughout Mexico to find out what would happen to anyone who tried to assassinate their former president, Álvaro Obregón Salido, or otherwise oppose the actions of their anti-Catholic government. They probably also hoped that the Catholic men being executed would grovel in fear before the cameras, proving the weakness of the Christian faith to newspaper readers all over the world. …

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