Blessed Martyrs of Quiché

10 people have been declared Blessed and beatified from the Department of Quiché where SOS visits for all of our trips. They are being celebrated at a Mass of Beatification in Santa Cruze del Quiché on April 23, 2021.

These include 3 Missionary of the Sacred Heart priests and 7 indigenous Maya Catechists that were killed for their faith between 1980 and 1991.

The Missionary of the Sacred Heart Martyrs

Fr. José María Gran Cirera (June 4, 1980)

Fr. Faustino Villanueva Villanueva (July 10, 1980)

Fr. Juan Alonso Fernandez (February 15, 1981)

The Lay Martyrs of Quiché

Domingo del Barrio Batz (June 4, 1980)

Tomás Ramírez Caba (September 6, 1980)

Nicolás Castro (September 29, 1980)

Reyes Us Hernández (November 21, 1980)

Juan Barrera Méndez (1980 - 12 yrs old)

Rosalío Benito (July 22, 1982)

Miguel Tiu Imul (October 31, 1991)

There is a lot of information being published about these Martyrs of the church surrounding the upcoming Beatification mass. There is some brief information about each on the Australian website for the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.