Feast day: May 21
Sts. Christopher Magallanes & Companions
A Mexican parish priest and twenty-four companions, mostly priests, shot during the anti-Catholic persecution of the Cristero years for ministering to their people.
Forbidden to function as a priest, Christopher Magallanes ran a secret seminary; arrested on the way to say Mass, he absolved his executioners before they fired.
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