I quote the german wikipedia:
Historical background
The Mexican government established a Rome-independent state church in February 1925 and began implementing the anti-clerical provisions of the 1917 constitution.
In addition, President Plutarco Elias Calles issued the so-called Ley Calles in 1926, which gave the Catholic Church freedom, e.g. B. severely restricted by the ban on celibacy and the ban on many religious orders. Furthermore, church property was confiscated by presidential order, religious schools were closed and priests were either exiled or murdered. All of this led to organized resistance in the Catholic population of Mexico and thus the insurrectionary movement of the Cristeros
arose and the Guerra Cristera broke out.
Life
When the Guerra Cristera broke out in 1926, José Sánchez del Río wanted to join the Cristeros like his brothers. After initially being refused admission in his home town of Sahuayo, he managed to convince General Prudencio Mendoza in Cotija, a few kilometers away, that he should join the Cristeros. He was then placed under the command of General Rubén Guízar Morfin, who gave him u. assigned the task of standard-bearer.
During a fight, the boy was arrested on February 6, 1928. In prison, soldiers tried in vain to dissuade him from his Catholic faith.
On February 10, 1928, José had the soles of his feet slashed and made to walk back and forth on bare salt. In the end, he had to walk the long way to his place of execution in severe pain on his bruised feet. On the way he was offered: "If you cry out 'Death to Christ the King!' then we will spare you." But José called out: "Viva Cristo Rey! Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!” At the cemetery in Sahuayo, they tried in vain to persuade him to apostasy. He was then shot in the head. Falling to the ground, dying, he drew a cross on the ground with his blood-smeared fingers and kissed it.[1] His execution was witnessed first-hand by the later founder of the Legionaries of Christ, Marcial Maciel.[2]
The remains of José Sánchez del Rio were buried in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in his birthplace, Sahuayo.[3]
canonization process
He was beatified on November 20, 2005 at the Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara by order of Pope Benedict XVI. along with twelve other Mexican martyrs.
Then the process of canonization began. On January 22, 2016, Pope Francis confirmed a healing attributed to the intercession of José Sánchez del Río as a miracle as a crucial requirement for canonization.[4] On October 16, 2016, he was canonized by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square in Rome.[5] His liturgical memorial is November 20th.
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