127 martyrs beatified in Córdoba (YouTube (Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba))

127 martyrs beatified in Córdoba (YouTube (Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba))

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Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, was the principal celebrant of the Mass of beatification on October 16.

“The priest, Juan Elías Medina, and 126 companion martyrs – priests, religious, seminarians and lay people – were killed in hatred of the faith during the violent religious persecution of the 1930s in Spain,” Pope Francis said the following day. “May their fidelity grant us all strength, especially persecuted Christians in various parts of the world, the strength to witness to the Gospel courageously.”

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