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List of Mexican Catholic saints

The Catholic Church recognizes some deceased Catholics as saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God. Some of these people were born, died, or lived their religious life in the present territory of Mexico. Because of missionaries who spent greater or lesser amounts of time in Mexico en route to other mission lands, exact numbers of Mexican saints vary. 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. Today, Mexico accounts for more saints and Blesseds than any other country in the Western Hemisphere.

Mexican saints

Individual causes

Group martyrs

Mexican blesseds

Individual causes

Group martyrs

Mexican venerables

  • Antonio Margil Ros (Antonio of Jesus) (1657–1726), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Valencia, Spain – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 31 July 1836
  • Leonardo Castellanos y Castellanos (1862–1912), Bishop of Tabasco (Michoacán de Ocampo – Tabasco, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 21 December 1989
  • (1853–1917), Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (Guerrero – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 9 April 1990
  • (María Dolores of the Wound on the Side of Christ) (1860–1925), Founder of the Daughters of the Passion of Jesus Christ and the Sorrows of Mary (Mexico City – Mexíco Distrito Federál, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 3 July 1998
  • Pablo de Anda Padilla (1830–1904), Priest of the Diocese of León; Founder of the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate (Jalisco – Guanajuato, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 28 June 1999
  • María Luisa de la Peña Navarro de Rojas (María Luisa Josefa [Luisita] of the Most Blessed Sacrament) (1866–1937), Widow; Founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Guadalajara and the Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Los Angeles (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 1 July 2000
  • Benôit-Félix Rougier Olanier (1859–1938), Priest and Founder of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit; Founder of the Guadalupan Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit and the Oblate Sisters of Jesus the Priest; Cofounder of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit (Puy-de-Dôme, France – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 1 July 2000
  • Librada Orozco Santa Cruz (María Librada of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) (1834–1926), Founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 18 December 2000
  • Julia Navarrete Guerrero (Julia of the Thorns of the Sacred Heart) (1881–1974), Founder of the Missionary Daughters of the Most Pure Virgin Mary (Oaxaca – Estado de Mexíco, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 22 June 2004
  • Jean Prosper Fromental (Bernardo Felipe) (1895–1978), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); Founder of the Guadalupan Sisters of De La Salle (Lozère, France – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 5 July 2013
  • Jesús María Echavarría Aguirre (1858–1954), Bishop of Saltillo; Founder of the Institute of Sisters Catechists of Guadalupe (Guadalupan Catechist Sisters) (Sinaloa – Coahuila, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 7 February 2014
  • Agustín Ramírez Barba (1881–1967), Priest of the Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos; Founder of the Servants of the Lord of Mercy (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 16 July 2015
  • María de Jesús Guízar Barragán (María of the Merciful Love of Jesus) (1899–1973), Founder of the Guadalupan Handmaids of Christ the Priest (Michoacán – Estado de Mexíco, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 14 June 2016
  • José Bardomiano de Jesús Guzmán Figueroa (Pablo María) (1897–1967), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit; Founder of the Eucharistic Missionaries of the Most Holy Trinity (Guanajuato – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 14 June 2016
  • María Patricia Magdalena Pátlan Sánchez (Humilde of the Child Jesus) (1895–1970), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Guanajuato, Mexico – Veracruz, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 16 June 2017
  • Eusebio Francisco Kino (1645–1711), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Trent, Italy – Sonora, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 10 July 2020
  • Vasco de Quiroga (1470–1565), Bishop of Michoacán (Ávila, Spain Michoacán, Mexico)
  • Declared "Venerable": 21 December 2020

Mexican Servants of God

  • Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566), Professed Priest of the Dominicans; Bishop of Chiapas (Seville – Madrid, Spain)
  • (1504–1567), Professed Priest of the Augustinians (Jaén, Spain – Michoacán, Mexico)
  • Juana Inés de Asbaje Ramírez de Santillana (Juana Inés of the Cross) (1648–1695), Professed Religious of the Hieronymite Nuns (Estado de México – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • (1709–1776), Priest of the Oratorians (Mexico City – Guanajuato, Mexico)
  • Antonio Alcalde Barriga (1701–1792), Professed Priest of the Dominicans; Bishop of Guadalajara (Valladolid, Spain – Jalisco, Mexico)
  • (1829–1884), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Mexico (Josephite Sisters) (Aguascalientes, Mexico – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • José Antonio Plancarte Labastida (1840–1898), Priest of the Archdiocese of Mexico; Founder of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate of Guadalupe (Mexico City, Mexico)
  • (1858–1905), Priest of the Diocese of Zacatecas; Founder of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Guadalupe (Aguascalientes, Mexico – Zacatecas, Mexico)
  • Miguel Cano Gutiérrez (1866–1924), Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara; Founder of the Servants of the Holy Trinity and the Poor (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Eugenio Oláez Anda (1860–1933), Priest of the Diocese of León; Founder of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Guanajuato, Mexico)
  • María de la Luz Elisa Berruecos Juvera (María Elisa Margarita of the Holy Spirit) (1874–1944), Founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Querétaro – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • María Eugenia González Lafón (María Eugenia of the Holy Trinity) (1876–1962), Founder of the Catechist Sisters of Mary Most Holy, Order of Saint Benedict (Chihuahua – Querétaro, Mexico)
  • Alfonso Pérez Larios (1886–1965), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (Jalisco – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • María Dolores Echevarría Esparza (1893–1966), Cofounder of the Missionaries of Jesus the Priest (Jalisco – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Gloria Esperanza Elizondo García (Gloría Maria of Jesus) (1908–1966), Professed Religious of the Catechist Sisters of the Poor (Durango – Nueva León, Mexico)
  • María Regina Sánchez Muñoz (1895–1967), Founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Guadalupe (Guadalajara – Chihuahua, Mexico)
  • José Soledad de Jesús Torres Castañeda (1918–1967), Bishop of Ciudad Obregón; Martyr (Zacatecas – Durango, Mexico)
  • Roberto Cuellar García (1896–1970), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Durango – Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Antonio Hernández Gallegos (1912–1973), Bishop of Tabasco (Zacatecas – San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
  • Rebeca María de Uriarte Healy (María Auxilia of the Cross) (1891–1974), Founder of the Oblate Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (Puebla – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Martha Christlieb Ibarrola (1914–1975), Cofounder of the Sisters of the True Cross, Daughters of the Church (Mexico City – Veracruz, Mexico)
  • Juan Pablo Góngora Alvarado (1894–1986), Priest of the Archdiocese of Yucatán; Founder of the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Mother of Light (Yucatán, Mexico)
  • María Concepcíon Álvarez Icaza (María Angélica) (1887–1977), Professed Religious of the Visitation Nuns (Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Maura Degollado Guízar de Maciel (1895–1977), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Tlalnepantla (Michoacán de Ocampo – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Juan María Navarrete Guerrero (1886–1982), Archbishop of Hermosillo (Oaxaca – Sonora, Mexico)
  • José Abraham Martínez Betancourt (1903–1982), Bishop of Tacámbaro; Founder of the Servants of the Immaculate Conception (Michoacán, Mexico)
  • Carlos Rosado Contraros (1926–1984), Priest of the Archdiocese of Yucatán (Yucatán, Mexico)
  • (1909–1984), Priest of the Diocese of Zamora; Founder of the Missionaries of the Holy Family and the Parochial Workers of the Holy Family (Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico)
  • Vincenzo Idà (1909–1984), Priest of the Diocese of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi; Founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Catechism and the Missionaries of Evangelization (Vibo Valentia, Italy – Oaxaca, Mexico)
  • (Ana María of the Holy Spirit) (1894–1985), Cofounder of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit (Mexico City, Mexico)
  • María Cristina Olimpia Macotela Durán (Margarita María) (1933–1985), Professed Religious of the Capuchin Poor Clares of the Blessed Sacrament (Mexico City – Puebla, Mexico)
  • José del Pilar Quezada Valdés (1900–1985), Bishop of Acapulco (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Virginia Padilla Jiménez (1901–1986), Founder of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows, Reparatrices of Her Sorrows (Jalisco – Mexico City, Mexico) (non-cause)
  • Marina Francisca Cinta Sarrelangue de Balmori (1909–1988), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • María del Carmen López Guzmán (María Yolanda of Our Lady of Guadalupe) (1942–1991), Professed Religious of the Servants of the Holy Trinity and the Poor (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • (1904–1995), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Saturnino García Lara (1903–1995), Priest of the Archdiocese of Morelia (Guanajuato – Michoacán, Mexico)
  • Basilio Rueda Guzmán (1924–1996), Professed Religious of the Marist Brothers of the Schools (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • (Salvador of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) (1934–1997), Professed Priest of the Discalced Carmelites (Guanajuato – Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Antonietta Böhm Schwanewilm (1907–2008), Professed Religious of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters) (Bottrop, Germany – Estado de Mexíco, Mexico)
  • Adalberto Almeida Merino (1916–2008), Archbishop of Chihuáhua (Chihuáhua, Mexico)
  • Ramón Sáinz Orozco (1882–1937), Married Layperson of the Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos; Martyr
  • Martín Lawers González (1881–1933), Priest of the Diocese of Irapuato; Martyr

Group Martyrs

  • Martyrs of Tepehuanes (Durango, Mexico):
  • Fernando de Tobar (1581–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Sinaloa, Mexico)
  • Bernardo de Cisneros (1582–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Palencia, Spain)
  • Diego de Orozco (1588–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Cáceres, Spain)
  • Juan del Valle (1575–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Vizcaya, Spain)
  • Luis de Alavés (1589–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Oaxaca, Mexico)
  • Juan Fonte (1574–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Barcelona, Spain)
  • Jeronimo de Moranta (1574–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Islas Baleares, Spain)
  • Fernando de Santarén (1567–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Cuenca, Spain)
  • Martyrs of the Mexican Republic:
  • Inocencio López Velarde Morán (1860–1914), Priest of the Diocese of Zacatecas (Jalisco – Zacatecas, Mexico)
  • Pascual Vega Alvarado (1851–1914), Priest of the Diocese of Zacatecas (Zacatecas, Mexico)
  • Charles-Alphonse Astruc (Adrian María) (1860–1914), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Lozère, France – Zacatecas, Mexico)
  • Jean-François-Théophile Gilles (Adolfo Francisco) (1869–1914), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Lozère, France – Zacatecas, Mexico)
  • Mariano Bermúdez González (1888–1914), Professed Religious of the Claretians (Zacatecas, Mexico)
  • Miguel Pérez Rubio (1863–1914), Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Andrés Avelino Flores Quesney (1880–1915), Priest of the Diocese of Ciudad Obregon (Sonora, Mexico)
  • Crescenciano Aguilar Zúñiga (1877–1925), Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Jalisco – Zacatecas, Mexico)
  • José García Farfán (1877–1926), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Puebla (Tlaxcala – Puebla, Mexico)
  • Joaquín de Silva Carrasco (1898–1926), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City (Guanajuato – Michoacán, Mexico)
  • Manuel Melgarejo Nápoles (1908–1926), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City (Mexico City – Michoacán, Mexico)
  • José Vargas Reyes (d. 1926), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Morelia (Michoacán, Mexico)
  • José Natividad Herrero Delgado (1911–1926), Child of the Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Juan Manuel Bonilla Manzano (1904–1927), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City (Mexico City – Estado de México, Mexico)
  • Florentino Alvarez Medina (1890–1927), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of León (Guanajuato, Mexico)
  • Tomás de la Mora (1909–1927), Priest of the Diocese of Colima (Colima, Mexico)
  • Pablo García Fernández (1876–1927), Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • María del Carmen Robles Ibarra (1890–1928), Layperson of the Diocese of Zacatecas (Zacatecas – Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Antonio Méndez Padrón (1887–1928), Priest of the Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
  • Emilio Pérez Michel (1876–1928), Priest of the Diocese of Autlán (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Salvador Gutiérrez de Mora (1904–1928), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City (Mexico City – Guerrero, Mexico)
  • José de Jesús Mora Salado (1886–1928), Priest of the Diocese of Ciudad Guzmán (Michoacán, Mexico)
  • Ramón Parada López (1896–1928), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Zenaida Llerenas Torres (1913–1928), Young Layperson of the Diocese of Colima (Colima, Mexico)
  • David Maduro Vertiz (1885–1929), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Estado de México – Coahuila, Mexico)
  • Gabriel Ángel García Morales (1906–1930), Young Layperson of the Diocese of Tabasco (Tabasco – Chiapas, Mexico)
  • Francisco Marmolejo (1895–1931), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Aguascalientes (Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Adolfo Mota Pineda (1885–1932), Priest of the Diocese of Colima (Colima – Jalisco, Mexico)
  • (1918–1937), Young Layperson of the Diocese of Orizaba (Veracruz, Mexico)

Mexican candidates for sainthood

  • Martín de Valencia (1474–1534), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Valencia de Don Juan, Spain – Tlalmanalco, Mexico)
  • Juan de Zumárraga (1468–1548), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor; Bishop of Mexico City (Biscay, Spain – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Gregorio López (1542–1596), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City; Hermit (Madrid, Spain – Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Pedro de Agurto (1544–1608), Professed Priest of the Augustinians; Bishop of Cebu (Mexico City, Mexico – Cebu, Philippines)
  • Diego Bazan (d. 1672), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City; Martyr (Mexico – Tumon, Guam)
  • Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés (1738–1781), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Zaragoza, Spain – Sonora, Mexico)
  • Luigi Corsini (1928–1963), Professed Priest of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus; Martyr (Brescia, Italy – Baja California Sur, Mexico)
  • Rodolfo Aguilar Álvarez (1948–1977), Priest of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua (Mexico City, Mexico – Chihuahua, Mexico)
  • Juan Morán Samaniego (1943–1979), Priest of the Diocese of Altacomulco; Martyr (Estado de México, Mexico)
  • María Concepción Zúñiga López (María Concepción of the Nativity and the Perpetual Help of Mary) (1914–1979), Founder of the Franciscan Minim Sisters of the Atonement of the Perpetual Help of Mary and the Franciscan Minim Friars of the Atonement of the Perpetual Help of Mary (Jalisco, Mexico – Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Luz Marina Valencia Triviño (1952–1987), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception (Cundinamarca, Colombia – Guerrero, Mexico)
  • Carlos Abascal (1949–2008), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City (Mexico City)
  • Juan Miguel Contreras García (1985–2018), Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara; Martyr (Jalisco, Mexico)

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