Mexico City, Mexico, Jun 8, 2007 / 09:09 am
The Archdiocese of Jalapa has been given the Episcopal ring of St. Rafael Guizar y Valencia, which the saint had sold to help the poor.
For years the whereabouts of the ring was unknown. An American family had bought the ring from the bishop, and recently the family decided to give it to Archbishop Emeritus Patrick Flores of San Antonio. The archbishop held on to the ring and this week traveled to Jalapa to give it as a gift to the archdiocese.
St. Rafael Guízar y Valencia--
The saint was born in 1878 to a family of eleven brothers and sisters in the Mexican state of Michoacan. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on January 29, 1995, in St. Peter’s Square. He endured many trials and persecutions because of the Mexican revolution of the 1920s.