MIGUEL PRO (1947)

MIGUEL AGUSTÍN PRO-JUÁREZ.

Jesuit priest martyred during the anti-Catholic regime of Pres. Alvaro Obregón (1920-24) in Mexico.

He entered the Society of Jesus at El Llano in 1911.

A policy of religious persecution under Pres. Venustiana Carranza forced Pro and other Jesuit students to leave Mexico for California in October 1914.

He pursued studies in Spain, Nicaragua and at Enghien, Belgium, where he was ordained in 1925 and returned in 1926 to Mexico where anti-Catholic measures were being continued by Pres. Plutarco Calles.

Although the government forbade all religious practices Pro ministered secretly for 15 months while agents searched for him constantly.

In november 1927 the police discovered his hiding place. He was falsely accused of participating in a bomb plot against Obregón and was shot.

The cause for his beatification was begun in 1952.

F. Royer´s "Father Miguel Pro" appeared in 1955.