Learn about the process of canonization in Making Saints by Kenneth Woodward, the religion editor of Newsweek. Click on the image above to order.

Read a collection of essays offering new insights into 17 saints in A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints, edited by Paul Elie. Click on the image above to order.

Heroic virtue is not the exclusive domain of the past. Red about modern-day witnesses to the faith in Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century by Robert Royal. Click on the image above to order.

 

 

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The Martyrdom of Bl. Miguel Pro
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November 23

Miguel Pro was a Jesuit priest who ministered in secret during the anti-Catholic pogroms of the Mexican government. He was accused of plotting against the government and was executed by firing squad on November 23, 1927, at the age of 36, while proclaiming "¡Viva Cristo Rey!" (Long live Christ the King!).

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