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| Saint Sabas Reyes Salazar, Pray for us ! |
⛪ Saint of the Day : April 13
⛪ Other Names : Sabas Reyes
⛪ Memorial :
• 21 May as one of the Martyrs of the Mexican Revolution
⛪ Born :
• 5 December 1883 in Cocula, Jalisco, Mexico
⛪ Died :
• Shot at 9 pm on 13 April 1927 in a cemetery outside Tototlan, Jalisco, Mexico
He was born in Cocula, Jal. (Archdiocese of Guadalajara), December 5, 1883. Vicar of TototlΓ‘n, Jal. (Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos). Simple and fervent, he had special devotion to the Holy Trinity. He also frequently invoked the souls of purgatory. He made a lot of training for young children, both in catechesis and in the teaching of sciences, crafts and arts, especially in music. Fulfilled and self-denying in his ministry. He demanded a lot of respect in everything related to the cult and he liked that promptly any duty should be fulfilled. When, because of the danger to the priests, they advised him to leave TototlΓ‘n, he replied: " They left me here and I hope here, to see what God has» In the Holy Week of 1927 the federal troops arrived and the agraristas looking for Mr. Cura Francisco Vizcarra and his ministers. They only found Father Reyes and in him they concentrated all their hatred. They took him prisoner, tied him tightly to a pillar of the parish church, tortured him three days through hunger and thirst and with unspeakable sadism, they burned his hands because they were consecrated. On April 13, 1927, Holy Wednesday, he was taken to the cemetery. They shot him dead, but before he died, more with his soul than with his voice, the martyred priest could shout: " Long live Christ the King !"