Feast day: July 28
Bl. Stanley Rother
An Oklahoma farm boy who became a missionary priest in Guatemala, learned the Mayan language to serve his people, refused to abandon them during the civil war, and was murdered in his rectory.
Warned his name was on a death list, he said 'the shepherd cannot run' and stayed — the first U.S.-born martyr and the first American-born priest beatified.
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