On May 21, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized a group of 25 saints and martyrs who had died in the Mexican Cristero War. The vast majority are Catholic priests who were executed for carrying out their
Tomb of San Pedro de Jesus Maldonado
A shrine to Andrés Solá Molist, José T. Rangel Montaño, and Leonardo Pérez Larios in the Santuario Expiatorio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (León, Guanajuato)
San Jose Maria Robles Hurtado
Chapel of San Toribio Romo Gonzalez
Cristóbal Magallanes Jara was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War. He had faced trumped-up charges of inciting rebellion.
Saints of the Cristero War
…Darío Acosta Zurita Cristóbal Magallanes Jara (1869–1927) Román Adame Rosales (1859–1928…
The Baptism of Cristobal Magallanes Jara; he was baptized on August 7th, 1869.
A statue of Cristóbal Magallanes Jara on the exterior of Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima in Guadalajara.