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St. Jose Sanchez del Rio

 

          

 

 

“¡Viva Cristo Rey!    
(Long live Christ the King!)  

¡Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!    
(Long live the Virgin of Guadalupe!)”

 

St. Jose Sanchez del Rio was killed in 1928 in the Catholic citizens armed defense of their faith, their Church, and their priests, whose lives who were under attack by the repressive Mexican government.  The government of that time was armed by the U.S.A. do to the hostile anti-Catholic forces like the KKK, and the No-Nothings, in the USA.

Jose carried the banner of the Catholic defenders. In the movie, For Greater Glory it shows the Sacred Heart of Jesus on one side, the Virgin of Guadalupe on the other.
 

 

 

When a wounded general of the army fighting against the government had is horse shot out from under him, Jose offered to the general his own horse.  Jose proceeded on foot, but was later captured, tortured, and killed.  When prized roosters were placed in an occupied Catholic Church Jose protested that the Church was a holy temple of God, and not a barn.

The boys carrying his relic were without shoes, to symbolize how Jose's souls cut off before he was required to walk without shoes across sharp objects to his place of execution.

 

 

Just before his death, Jose was asked to renounce Jesus Christ so that his life might be spared. Instead, he courageously responded with all his heart, “¡Viva Cristo Rey!” 

St. Jose Sanchez del Rio's relic is below.  It has his dying words along the horizontal bar,
“¡Viva Cristo Rey!    which means
(Long live Christ the King!)

 

 

 

 

See more about his life at wiki

See more about the Movie depicting his life,

For Greater Glory 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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