Remembering Miguel Pro

Sam Dixon nSJ
Nov 27th, 2020

Miguel Pro faces firing squad

Source: Jesuits in Britain

Jesuit Novice Sam Dixon wrote for Jesuits in Britain on Monday: Today, we remember Miguel Pro - executed by a firing squad on this day (November 23) in 1927. He was beatified in Rome on September 25, 1988, by Pope John Paul II as a Catholic martyr.

It's easy to think we have to be solemn or pious for God to like us, as if to be orthodox means that we shouldn't enjoy ourselves. Miguel Pro can help us with our temptation to solemnity, this temptation to hide our silliness. He was born in 1891 in Mexico and he was a natural mimic, actor and clown. There's a lovely story that when he was a child he went to a cattle market with his elder sister and, impersonating her voice, he put in a bid for a cow at an auction. Then he slipped away and his poor sister was left explaining why she didn't want the cow she'd just bought. It's not what you'd expect of a saint.

At the age of 34, he was ordained a Jesuit priest. Back in Mexico, the country had now become a full-on atheist police state. To be a priest was to be a criminal. Miguel Pro decided to return.To read on click HERE

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