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Nov 22, 2017 · Miguel Pro: Anti-Fascist Martyr. In the midst of brutal anti-Catholic persecution in early 20th-century Mexico, Blessed Miguel Pro became a shining beacon of heroic opposition to evil. The twentieth century was witness to the rise of three political ideologies that brought destruction and death to the world and persecution to the Catholic Church.
Nov 23, 2023 · Miguel Pro was born on January 13, 1891 in Guadalupe, Zucatecas in Mexico. He was the oldest son of a mining engineer and a homemaker. Miguel was one of seven children; three of his siblings died while still very young. At age four, Miguel developed a serious illness that caused a high fever and pain, and left him unable to speak.
Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro was a Jesuit priest who served Mexican Catholics during the time when all public worship was banned in Mexico. Since the government did not know he was a priest, Padre Pro went about clandestinely, sometimes in disguise, celebrating Mass, distributing communion, hearing confessions, and anointing the sick.
Blessed Miguel Pro was born in Guadalupe, Mexico, on Jan. 13, 1891, to Josefa Juarez and Miguel Pro, little Miguel was blessed with a warm family and a happy childhood. How different his adult life would be! Forced to flee. Miguel, 20 years old, entered the Jesuit novitiate at El Llano, Michoacan, on Aug. 10, 1911.
Miguel Pro had been born January 13, 1891, in Guadalupe, Mexico, one of eleven children of a mining engineer. He joined the Jesuits in 1911, a year after a persecution had begun in Mexico. The Jesuit novices were sent to study in other countries, and Miguel was ordained in Belgium in 1925. Father Pro returned to Mexico City in 1926, and within ...
Nov 23, 2021 · Blessed Miguel Pro | One-Minute Saints. Blessed Miguel Pro reminds us that a life well-lived is more important than a life long-lived. When Miguel Agustín Pro entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 20, Catholics in Mexico were suffering persecution by the Mexican government. Because of this, he had to leave Mexico to continue his Jesuit ...
BL. MIGUEL PRO “Viva Cristo Rey!” As he faced a firing squad for serving the Catholic faithful in Mexico at a time when Catholicism was outlawed and severely persecuted, Fr. Miguel Pro of the Society of Jesus made a request. He asked to have a moment to pray on his knees, then he stood up, stretched out his arms in the imitation of
