Guatemala
Notable Catholic Saints
Bl. Stanley Rother (American missionary priest martyred in Guatemala 1981, beatified 2017 — first American-born martyr); Bishop Juan Gerardi (murdered 1998, beatification cause open)
Americas
Guatemala
Guatemala's Catholic Church has borne witness to one of the most violent histories in the Americas — the 36-year civil war in which the military murdered 200,000 mostly indigenous Maya people, and in which Bishop Juan Gerardi was assassinated two days after presenting the Church's truth commission report.
Guatemala
Notable FEAST DAYs
Feast of the Black Christ of Esquipulas (Jan 15) — Central America's most important pilgrimage, drawing 1 million+ annually; Semana Santa in Antigua Guatemala — one of the most spectacular Holy Week observances in the world
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