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The soldiers forced him to watch as they tortured another Cristero. Instead of allowing this to frighten him, José encouraged his comrade, saying, “You will be [in] Heaven before me. Prepare a place for me. Tell Christ the King I shall be with him soon.”

Angered even more, the soldiers cut the skin off the bottoms of José’s feet and made him walk on salt. Screaming in pain, José did not give in to their demands to shout “Death to Christ the King!” to save his life. José answered, “¡Viva Cristo Rey! Long live Christ the King! Long live the Virgin of Guadalupe!” On Feb. 10, 1928, he was cut with a machete and shot several times at point-blank range until he died.

Proclaimed one of the Church’s most recent saints, young José was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 and canonized by Pope Francis in 2016. He is buried above a side altar in the Church of Saint James the Apostle in Sahuayo, his hometown.

Source: https://marian.org/articles/north-american-sanctity-st-jose-sanchez-del-rio
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St. José Sanchez, 15 year old Martyr

Martyred for his refusal to deny Christ, St. José was a member of the Cristeros, a group of landowners, ranchers, and sharecroppers who revolted against the anti-Catholic government of Mexico in 1926. The Mexican government had implemented laws intended to marginalize and eliminate the Catholic Church from the lives of its people. The Cristero War lasted until 1929, though Cristeros were hunted and persecuted well into the 1950s.

Only 12 years old when the Cristero War broke out, José pleaded with his mother to be allowed to join his two older brothers in the Cristeros. She objected strongly to his pleas, but young José responded, “Mama, do not let me lose the opportunity to gain Heaven so easily and so soon.”

José was eventually captured by federal soldiers, who shackled him in irons and imprisoned him.
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