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The Catholic Church has been present in what is now Mexico since the earliest years of the sixteenth century. As early as 1517, the expedition of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba brought Catholicism to the Yucatan, where the first diocese in continental North America would be erected in 1518. Mexico's first saint was canonized in 1862.
Pages in category "Mexican Roman Catholic saints" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
Mexico City; Nagasaki; Santa Cruz del Quiché; Ozatlán; El Viso del Alcor Philip of Jesus , OFM (Spanish: Felipe de Jesús ) was a Novohispanic Franciscan Catholic missionary who became one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan , the first Mexican saint and patron saint of Mexico City .
The history of the Catholic Church in Mexico dates from the period of the Spanish conquest (1519–21) and has continued as an institution in Mexico into the twenty-first century. Catholicism is one of many major legacies from the Spanish colonial era, the others include Spanish as the nation's language, the Civil Code and Spanish colonial ...
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548), [a] also known simply as Juan Diego (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌxwanˈdjeɣo]), was a Nahua peasant and Marian visionary.He is said to have been granted apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe on four occasions in December 1531: three at the hill of Tepeyac and a fourth before don Juan de Zumárraga, then the first bishop of Mexico.
Mexican Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns (1 C, 7 P) S. Mexican Roman Catholic saints (1 C, 23 P) Mexican saints (1 C, 1 P) Mexican Servants of God (3 P) T.
Mexican Roman Catholic saints (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Mexican saints" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. S.