List of Central American and Caribbean saints
This page is a list of Central American and Caribbean saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of North America, excluding Mexico, Canada and the United States.
The Cruz de la Parra, in Baracoa, is the last surviving of the 29 crosses planted in the New World by Columbus. It is the oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the Americas.
The first unquestioned presence of the Catholic Church in the Americas was in this region, when Christopher Columbus first set foot on San Salvador. The oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the New World, the Cruz de la Parra, is kept in what is now Cuba.
List of saints
The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated.
- St. Louis Bertrand, Dominican priest (Panama and the Caribbean)
- Declared Venerable: N/A
- Beatified: 19 July 1608 by Pope Paul V
- Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X
- St. Anthony Mary Claret, Archbishop of Santiago (Cuba)
- Declared Venerable: 6 January 1926
- Beatified: 25 February 1934 by Pope Pius XI
- Canonized: 7 May 1950 by Pope Pius XII
- St. Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz, Augustinian Recollect (Dominican Republic)
- Declared Venerable: 1 February 1975
- Beatified: 1 November 1975 by Pope Paul VI
- Canonized: 11 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II
- St. Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur, founder of the Order of Betlemitas (Guatemala)
- Declared Venerable: 25 July 1771
- Beatified: 22 June 1980 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized: 30 July 2002 by Pope John Paul II
- St. Óscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)
- Declared Martyr: 3 February 2015
- Beatified: 23 May 2015 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
- Canonized: 14 October 2018 by Pope Francis
List of blesseds
- Bl. Jacques-Jules Bonnaud, Jesuit priest, Martyr in France (Haiti)
- Declared Martyr: 1 October 1926
- Beatified: 17 October 1926 by Pope Pius XI
- Bl. Encarnación Rosal (born Maria Vicenta Rosal Vasquez), Betlemite Sister (Guatemala)
- Declared Venerable: 6 April 1995
- Beatified: 4 May 1997 by Pope John Paul II
- Bl. Maria Romero Meneses, Salesian Sister (Costa Rica and Nicaragua)
- Declared Venerable: 18 December 2000
- Beatified: 14 April 2002 by Pope John Paul II
- Bl. María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña, Foundress of the Sisters of the Catechetical Institute of Dolores Sopeña (active in Cuba 1873-1877)
- Declared Venerable: 11 July 1992
- Beatified: 23 March 2003 by Pope John Paul II
- Bl. José López Piteira, Augustinian deacon, Martyr in Spain (Cuba)
- Declared Martyr: 1 June 2007
- Beatified: 28 October 2007 by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins
- Bl. José Olallo, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God (Cuba)
- Declared Venerable: 16 December 2006
- Beatified: 29 November 2008 by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins
- Bl. Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás, Cardinal (was a priest in Cuba; later Patriarch of the West Indies)
- Declared Venerable: 28 April 2006
- Beatified: 18 October 2009 by Archbishop Angelo Amato
- Bl. Armando Oscar Valdes, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, Martyr in Spain (Cuba)
- Declared Martyr: 5 July 2013
- Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
- Bl. Stanley Rother, American priest from Oklahoma City area who was a missionary and was martyred by 3 men (Guatemala)
- Declared Martyr: 1 December 2016
- Beatified: 23 September 2017 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
List of venerables
- Ven. Leo Dupont, layman (Martinique)
- Declared Venerable: 21 March 1983
- Ven. Maria Antonia Paris, Foundress of the Claretian Sisters (Cuba)
- Declared Venerable: 23 December 1993
- Ven. Pierre Toussaint, layman (Haiti)
- Declared Venerable: 17 December 1996
- Ven. Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cuba)
- Declared Venerable: 28 June 1999
- Ven. Jerónimo Usera, priest (Cuba)
- Declared Venerable: 28 June 1999
- Ven. Félix Varela, priest (Cuba)
- Declared Venerable: 14 March 2012
- Ven. Marcello Maruzzo, priest (Guatemala)
- Declared Martyr: 9 October 2017
- Ven. Luis Navarro, layman (Guatemala)
- Declared Martyr: 9 October 2017
List of Servants of God
- Servant of God Antonio de Valdivieso O.P., bishop and protomartyr for the defense of the Native Americans (Nicaragua)
- Servant of God Mariano Dubon Alonso, secular priest (Nicaragua)
- Servant of God Remigio Salazar y Amador, secular priest (Nicaragua)
- Servant of God Casimir Cypher (born Michael Jerome Cypher), Franciscan Conventual priest (Honduras)
- Servant of God Moises Gonzalez Crespo, Augustinian priest (Panama)
- Servant of God Rutilio Grande Garcia, Jesuit priest (El Salvador)
- Servant of God Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange (Cuba) (Haiti) nun, founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence.
Other open causes
Others have been proposed for beatification, and may have active groups supporting their causes. These include:
- Four U.S missionaries raped and murdered by a Salvadoran government death squad in 1980:
- Maura Clarke, Maryknoll Sister
- Ita Ford, Maryknoll Sister
- Dorothy Kazel, Ursuline Sister
- Jean Donovan, laywoman
- Archbishop Anthony Pantin, Holy Ghost Father (Trinidad & Tobago)
See also
References
- Ewald, Daniel P. (2009). Saints and Blesseds of the Americas. Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4363-6761-5.
- Habig, Marion A. (1974). Saints of the Americas. Our Sunday Visitor. ISBN 0-87973-880-4.
- "Hagiography Circle"
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