12/11/2020 0 Comments December 11th, 2020Here I am," said Salvador Lara Puente when the Mexican federal soldiers arrived to arrest him.
A member of the National League for Defense of Religious Liberty, an organization that defended Catholics against the persecution of Mexico's government during the Cristero War, he was arrested during one of its meetings. After driven to the mountains, he realized he was going to be executed, and he walked to the spot, praying in a low voice. Offered his life and his freedom in exchange for his recognition of the legitimacy of the anti-Catholic government, he refused and was shot on the spot, on August 15, 1926. #VivaCristoRey!
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