Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?13_April_=E2=80=93_St_Jose_Sab=C3=A1s_Reyes_Salazar?= To : All From : rich Date : Mon Apr 12 2021 10:23:22 From: rich 13 April =E2=80=93 St Jose Sab=C3=A1s Reyes Salazar Also known as Sabas Reyes Memorials 13 April 21 May as one of the Martyrs of the Mexican Revolution =C2 Priest and Martyr of the Cristero War, Teacher, Catechist, Protector of children and the youth of Mexico, he had a special devotion to the Holy Trinity and the Souls in Purgatory =E2=80=93 born on 5 December 1883 i= n Cocula, Jalisco, Mexico and died by being shot at 9pm on 13 April 1927 in a cemetery outside Tototlan, Jalisco, Mexico. He was 44 years old. He was born in Cocula, Jalisco, the son of Norberto Reyes L=C3=B3pez and Francisca Salazar Castillo. He was Baptised on 8 December. Due to the poverty of the time, his family was moved to Guadalajara for work prospects, where he had an extremely poor childhood. To mitigate hunger and poverty, he was a newspaper seller and was unable to complete primary school. He entered the Conciliar Seminary of Guadalajara, where according to the criteria of the time, his lack of education disqualified him to become a clergyman for Guadalajara Diocese, however, taking into account his noble and devout nature, the superiors themselves, recommended that he join a diocese in need. St Sab=C3=A1s was humble and constant in his vocation and was received in the Diocese of Tamaulipas, where he was Ordained to the sacred orders, on 24 December 1911. He celebrated his first Mass in Guadalajara in 1912 in the company of his family and friends. For two years he exercised the priestly ministry in Tantoyuca, Veracruz. In 1914 religious persecution was unleashed in the State of Tamaulipas, Father Sab=C3=A1s asked permission to move to the diocese of Guadalajara. In the year 1919 he went to the parish of Tototl=C3=A1n, Jalisco, to collaborate with the priest Francisco Vizcarra Ruiz, first as chaplain of the San Antonio de G=C3=B3mez farm and sanctuary and later in 1921, he was transferred to the main Parish Church. When the worship had to be suspended in the Churches of the Republic, the Parish Priest of Tototl=C3=A1n left the town and Father Sab=C3=A1s was = left in charge, administering the sacraments. Father Sab=C3=A1s then gave the orphaned children asylum in his own home. When the federal troops arrived, they murdered the innocent and desecrated the closed Church by using it as stables and destroying all the holy images, then they set it on fire. When the soldiers left, Father Sab=C3=A1s and the faithful came to extinguish the flames. His parishioners begged him to leave the area but he said: =E2=80=9CMy superior= s sent me here and my parish priest entrusted me with the care of the parish. If it is God's will, I will gladly accept martyrdom=E2=80= =9D At Easter in 1927, warned that the federal troops would attack Tototl=C3=A1n, he went into hiding at the home of Mrs Mar=C3=ADa Ontiveros, along with three companions =E2=80=93 the young Jos=C3=A9 Beltr=C3=A1n and = the orphan children Octavio C=C3=A1rdenas and Salvador Botello From that moment until his capture, he kept praying the rosary and although, when the soldiers reached his hiding place, the owner of the house denied that he was there, to protect her, her family and the orphans, Father Sab=C3=A1s came out from his hiding and said:=C2 =E2=80=9CHere I am, what is do you= wish with me? =E2=80=9C In response, they tied his arms tightly and dragged him away. He was dragged to the parish church, which was now a stable and headquarters for federal soldiers and was tied to a column in the harsh rays of the sun. For several hours he was denied drinking water and finally, a woman was allowed to provide him with food. She asked the parishioners to pray to God for him.=C2 For three days through hunger and thirst and with unspeakable sadism they burned his hands because they were consecrated.=C2 On the night of 12 April, tied by the hands and tied to the neck by a rope he was taken before the General who interrogated him, seeking the whereabouts of other priests. To continue tormenting him, two bonfires were lit, one next to his face and another next to his feet. The latter, meanwhile, muttered over and over again: =E2=80=9CLord of Heaven, my Mother of Guadalupe, grant me strength.=E2=80=9D The brutal torment lasted until the first hours of dawn. Occasionally, one of the soldiers would stab him with a burning stick and scoff:=C2 =E2=80=9CYou who say God comes down into your hands, let H= im come down now to free you from mine.=E2=80=9D At dusk on Holy Wednesday, he was dragged to the cemetary where he was riddled with bullets.=C2 One of his executioners later commented:=C2 = =E2=80=9CI am very sorry to have killed that Father, he died unfairly. We had already given him three or four shots and he still got up and shouted =E2=80=9CViva Cristo Rey!=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CLong live Christ the King !=E2= =80=9D The next day, 14 April, at seven in the morning, two men who were going to prepare a grave for Don Aurelio de la Torre who was murdered for hiding Father Jos=C3=A9 Dolores Guzm=C3=A1n, saw the body of Father Rey= es which was lying outside the cemetery, already rigid, with four bullet wounds =E2=80=93 two in the chest, one in the right arm and one in the forehead. The neck, ribs and ankles bore the marked signs of the ropes, his hands were burned and virtually all his bones were broken ... They requested the necessary permission to bury him in Don Aurelio=E2=80= =99s own grave. They placed the body in a box and buried it on Maundy Thursday afternoon. Later, his remains were transferred to the parish church of San Agust=C3=ADn, in Tototl=C3=A1n. All the people considered Father Sab=C3= =A1s Reyes Salazar as a martyr of Jesus Christ and as such, venerated his relics. The process and cause for his Canonisation along with other priests and laymen murdered during that period began in 1954. The Decree recognising his martyrdom and that of his fellow martyrs was promulgated on 7 March 1992. He was Beatified on 22 November 1992 in Rome and Canonised on 21 May 2000, the Jubilee Holy Year, by St John Paul II. People who knew him and dealt with him during the interrogations of the Cause of Canonisation, related that he was simple, humble and selfless in his care of others. Saint Sab=C3=A1s Reyes, you dedicated your life to teaching and educating children, assisting your parishioners and spilling your Blood for Christ the King, pray for us! https://anastpaul.com/2020/04/13/ Saint Quote: You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory. --Saint Bridget to our Lady Bible Quote: =C2 When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease. As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife. [Pro 26:20-21] DRB <><><><> From The Passion And Death Of Jesus Christ, by Saint Alphonsus And what kind of affronts did not the Redeemer suffer in His Passion? He saw Himself affronted by His own disciples. One of them betrays Him and sells Him for thirty pieces. Another denies Him many times, protesting publicly that he knows Him not; and thus attesting that he was ashamed to have known Him in the past. The other disciples, when they see Him taken and bound, all fly and abandon Him: Then his disciples leaving him, all fled away. (Mark xiv. 50). O my Jesus, thus abandoned, who will ever undertake Thy defence, if, when Thou art first taken, those most dear to Thee depart from and forsake Thee? But, my God, to think that this dishonour did not end with Thy Passion! How many souls, after having offered themselves to follow Thee, and after having been favoured by Thee with many graces and special signs of love, being then driven by some passion of vile interest, or human respect, or sordid pleasure, have ungratefully forsaken Thee! Which of these ungrateful ones is found to turn and lament, saying, Ah, my dear Jesus, pardon me; for I will not leave Thee again. I will rather lose my life a thousand times than lose Thy grace, O my God, my Love, my All. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .