Stanley Francis Rother was an American Roman Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981. He had worked as a missionary priest there since 1968. He held several parish assignments as a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City from 1963 to 1968 before being assigned to Guatemala.
Memorial plaque to Rother in Santiago Atitlán. It quotes John 15:13: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
First Class bone Relic of Blessed Stanley Rother
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church of western Oklahoma in the United States. The mother church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Oklahoma City.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Image: Archdiocese of Oklahoma City