List of Central American and Caribbean saints

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This page is a list of Central American and Caribbean saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of North America excluding Mexico, Canada and the United States.

The Cruz de la Parra, in Baracoa, is the last surviving of the 29 crosses planted in the New World by Columbus. It is the oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the Americas.

The first unquestioned presence of the Catholic Church in the Americas was in this region, when Christopher Columbus first set foot on San Salvador. The oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the New World, the Cruz de la Parra, is kept in what is now Cuba.

List of saints[]

The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated. As a fact, of the list only St. Óscar Romero is the only native saint of Central America[1] and the Caribbean. The rest were Spanish missionaries who carried out their apostolic work in these American countries.

  • St. Louis Bertrand, Dominican priest (Panama and the Caribbean)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A
    • Beatified: 19 July 1608 by Pope Paul V
    • Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X
  • St. Anthony Mary Claret, Archbishop of Santiago (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 6 January 1926
    • Beatified: 25 February 1934 by Pope Pius XI
    • Canonized: 7 May 1950 by Pope Pius XII
  • St. Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz, Augustinian Recollect (Dominican Republic)
    • Declared Venerable: 1 February 1975
    • Beatified: 1 November 1975 by Pope Paul VI
    • Canonized: 11 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II
  • St. Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur, founder of the Order of Betlemitas (Guatemala)
    • Declared Venerable: 25 July 1771
    • Beatified: 22 June 1980 by Pope John Paul II
    • Canonized: 30 July 2002 by Pope John Paul II
  • St. Óscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)
    • Declared Martyr: 3 February 2015
    • Beatified: 23 May 2015 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
    • Canonized: 14 October 2018 by Pope Francis

List of blesseds[]

  • Bl. , Jesuit priest, Martyr in France (Haiti)
    • Declared Martyr: 1 October 1926
    • Beatified: 17 October 1926 by Pope Pius XI
  • Bl. Encarnación Rosal (born Maria Vicenta Rosal Vasquez), Betlemite Sister (Guatemala)
    • Declared Venerable: 6 April 1995
    • Beatified: 4 May 1997 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, Layperson (Puerto Rico)
    • Beatified: 29 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Maria Romero Meneses, Salesian Sister (Costa Rica and Nicaragua)
    • Declared Venerable: 18 December 2000
    • Beatified: 14 April 2002 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña, Foundress of the Sisters of the Catechetical Institute of Dolores Sopeña (active in Cuba 1873-1877)
    • Declared Venerable: 11 July 1992
    • Beatified: 23 March 2003 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. , Augustinian deacon, Martyr in Spain (Cuba)
  • Bl. José Olallo, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God (Cuba)
  • Bl. Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás, Cardinal (was a priest in Cuba; later Patriarch of the West Indies)
    • Declared Venerable: 28 April 2006
    • Beatified: 18 October 2009 by Archbishop Angelo Amato
  • Bl. , Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, Martyr in Spain (Cuba)
    • Declared Martyr: 5 July 2013
    • Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • Bl. Stanley Rother, American priest from Oklahoma City area who was a missionary and was martyred by 3 men (Guatemala)
    • Declared Martyr: 1 December 2016
    • Beatified: 23 September 2017 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • Bl. Marcello Maruzzo, priest (Guatemala)
  • Bl. Luis Navarro, layman (Guatemala)
  • Bl. James Alfred Miller (Leo William) [Santiago], Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); Martyr (Guatemala)
  • Bl. , laypersons of the diocese of Quiché (Guatemala)
  • Bl. Rutilio Grande Garcia, Jesuit priest (El Salvador)
  • Bl. Manuel Solórzano, layman (El Salvador)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 February 2020
    • Beatified: 22 January 2022 by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez
  • Bl. Nelson Lemus, layperson (El Salvador)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 February 2020
    • Beatified: 22 January 2022 by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez
  • Bl. Cosme Spessotto, Capuchin priest (El Salvador)
    • Declared Venerable: 26 May 2020
    • Beatified: 22 January 2022 by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez

List of venerables[]

  • Ven. Leo Dupont, layman (Martinique)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 March 1983
  • Ven. Maria Antonia Paris, Foundress of the Claretian Sisters (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 23 December 1993
  • Ven. Pierre Toussaint, layman (Haiti)
    • Declared Venerable: 17 December 1996
  • Ven. Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 28 June 1999
  • Ven. , priest (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 28 June 1999
  • Ven. Félix Varela, priest (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 14 March 2012
  • Ven. Rafael Cordero Molina, layperson (Puerto Rico)
    • Declared Venerable: 9 December 2013
  • Ven. , Foundress of the Congregation of the Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick (Puerto Rico)
    • Declared Venerable: 15 January 2019
  • Ven. (Nymphas Victorin), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Haute-Loire, France – San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    • Declared Venerable: 6 April 2019

List of Servants of God[]

  • Servant of God Antonio de Valdivieso O.P., bishop and protomartyr for the defense of the Native Americans (Nicaragua)
  • Servant of God , secular priest (Nicaragua)
  • Servant of God , secular priest (Nicaragua)
  • Servant of God (born Michael Jerome Cypher), Franciscan Conventual priest (Honduras)
  • Servant of God , Augustinian priest (Panama)
  • Servant of God Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange (Cuba) (Haiti) nun, founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence
  • Servant of God (1950-1990), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán; Martyr (Honduras)
  • Servant of God [Niña Anita] (1887-1977), Layperson of the Diocese of Chitré (Panama)
  • Servant of God (1945-1991), Professed Religious of the Marist Brothers of the Schools; Martyr (Guatemala)
  • Servant of God (1927-1957), Priest of the Diocese of Tilaran-Liberia (Costa Rica)
  • Servant of God (1941-1954), Child of the Archdiocese of San Jose de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
  • Servant of God (Casiano María of Madrid) (1892-1965), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Costa Rica)
  • Servant of God (1898-1952), Archbishop of San Jose de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
  • Servant of God Zilda Arns Neumann (1934-2010), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Curitiba (Haiti)

Other open causes[]

Others have been proposed for beatification, and may have active groups supporting their causes. These include:

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ La historia de Monseñor Romero; el primer santo centroamericano
  • Habig, Marion A. (1974). Saints of the Americas. Our Sunday Visitor. ISBN 0-87973-880-4.
  • "Hagiography Circle"
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