Pedro Esqueda Ramirez
{{Short description|Mexican Catholic priest (1887–1927)}}
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| birth_date = 29 April 1887
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| death_place = Tecualtitan, Jalisco, Mexico
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| feast_day = {{unbulleted list|22 November}}
| venerated_in = Roman Catholic Church
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Pedro Esqueda Ramírez' (San Juan de los Lagos, 29 April 1887 – Teocaltiche, 22 November 1927) was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr. He was canonized by John Paul II on 21 May 2000.{{Cite web |title=Pedro Esqueda Ramírez |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20000521_esqueda-ramirez_sp.html |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=www.vatican.va}}{{Cite web |title=Saint Pedro Esqueda Ramírez, priest |url=https://www.aciprensa.com/testigosdefe/cristera/esqueda.htm |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=ACI Prensa}}
Biography
He entered the seminary in Guadalajara at the age of fifteen, being ordained a priest in 1916. He was appointed vicar of San Juan de los Lagos.
As a result of the Cristero War, Esqueda continued to celebrate Mass secretly, which is why he was apprehended and tortured by the Mexican Army and shot on 22 November 1927 in the vicinity of Teocaltitán, in Jalisco.{{Cite web |title=Pedro Esqueda Ramírez, Santo |url=http://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/35654/pedro-esqueda-ramirez-santo.html |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Catholic.net |language=es}}
His remains are in the presbytery of the Cathedral Basilica of San Juan de los Lagos.{{Cite web |title=Arquidiocesis de Guadalajara |url=https://arquidiocesisgdl.org/beatos.php |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=arquidiocesisgdl.org}}
He was canonized by John Paul II on 21 May 2000, along with twenty-six other Mexican religious and lay people, many of them victims of the religious persecution unleashed in Mexico during the Cristero War (1926–1929).{{Cite web |last=Tiempo |first=Casa Editorial El |date=2000-05-24 |title=AMÉRICA TIENE MÁS SANTOS |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1235283 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=El Tiempo |language=spanish}}
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Category:Martyred Roman Catholic priests
Category:Victims of anti-Catholic violence in Mexico