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Two Holy Cards of Blessed Miguel Pro Plus a Silver Oxidized Medal of Bl. Miguel:
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Two Laminated Holy Cards (1st - 5 X 3.75\" and 2nd - 3.75\" X 4.50\") of Blessed Miguel Pro Plus a 1\" Silver Oxidized Medal of Blessed Miguel Augustin Pro Made in Italy.

JoséRamón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, also known as Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ (January13, 1891 – November 23, 1927) was a Mexican Jesuit priest executed under thepresidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on the false charges of bombing andattempted assassination of former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón.

Pro\'sarrest, lack of trial, and evidential support gained prominence during theCristero War. Known for his religious piety and innocence, he was beatified inRome on September 25, 1988, by Pope John Paul II as a Catholic martyr, killedin odium fidei (in hatred of the faith).

At thetime of Pro\'s death, Mexico was ruled by fiercely anti-clerical andanti-Catholic President Plutarco Elías Calles who had begun what writer GrahamGreene called the \"fiercest persecution of religion anywhere since thereign of Elizabeth.\"

Miguel Pro,whose full name was José Ramón Miguel Agustín, was born into a mining family onJanuary 13, 1891, in Guadalupe, Zacatecas. He was the third of eleven children,four of whom had died as infants or young children. From a young age, he wascalled \"Cocol\" as a nickname. Two of his sisters joined a convent. Heentered the Jesuit novitiate at El Llano on August 15, 1911.

One ofhis companions, Pulido, said that he \"had never seen such an exquisitewit, never coarse, always sparkling.\" He was noted for his charity andability to speak about spiritual subjects without boring his audience. Pulidoremarked that there were two Pros: the playful Pro and the prayerful Pro. Hewas known for the long periods he spent in the chapel.

Long-timePresident of Mexico Porfirio Díaz was ousted in 1911 after staging a riggedreelection, and a struggle for power – the Mexican Revolution – began.

Prostudied in Mexico until 1914 when a massive wave of governmentalanti-Catholicism forced the novitiate to dissolve and the Jesuits to flee toLos Gatos, California, in the United States. He then went to study in Granada,Spain (1915–19), and from 1919 to 1922 taught in Nicaragua.

Back inMexico, a new constitution for the country had been signed (1917). Fivearticles of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico were particularly aimed atsuppression of the Catholic Church. Article 3 mandated secular education inschools, prohibiting the Church from participating in primary and secondaryeducation. Article 5 outlawed monastic religious orders. Article 24 forbadepublic worship outside of church buildings, while Article 27 restrictedreligious organizations\' rights to own property. Finally, Article 130 revokedbasic civil rights of clergy members: priests and religious workers wereprevented from wearing their habits, were denied the right to vote, and wereforofferden from commenting on public affairs to the press. Most of theanti-clerical provisions of the constitution were removed in 1998.

For histheological studies Pro was sent to Enghien, Belgium, where the French Jesuits(also in exile) had their faculty of Theology. His health continued todeteriorate. There he was ordained a priest on August 31, 1925. He wrote onthat occasion: \"How can I explain to you the sweet grace of the Holy Spirit,which invades my poor miner\'s soul with such heavenly joys? I could not holdback the tears on the day of my ordination, above all at the moment when Ipronounced, together with the bishop, the words of the consecration. After theceremony the new priests gave their first blessing to their parents. I went tomy room, laid out all the photographs of my family on the table, and thenblessed them from the bottom of my heart.\"

His firstassignment as a priest was to work with the miners of Charleroi, Belgium. Despitethe socialist, communist, and anarchist tendencies of the workers, he was ableto win them over and preach the Gospel to them.

Threemonths after ordination, he was forced to undergo several operations forulcers. He remained cheerful and courageous, explaining that the source of hisstrength was his prayer.

In summer1926 – his studies in Europe completed – Pro returned to Mexico. On the way hevisited Lourdes where he celebrated Mass and visited the grotto of Our Lady ofLourdes.

Proarrived at Veracruz on July 8, 1926. Plutarco Elías Calles was now president ofMexico. Unlike his predecessors, Calles vigorously enforced the anti-Catholicprovisions of the 1917 constitution, implementing the so-called Calles Law,which provided specific penalties for priests who criticized the government(five years\' imprisonment) or wore clerical garb in certain situations outsidetheir churches (500 pesos). This law went into effect on July 31, 1926.

By thistime, some states, such as Tabasco under the notorious anti-Catholic TomásGarrido Canabal, had closed all the churches and cleared the entire state ofopenly serving priests, killing many of them, forcing a few to marry, theremaining few serving covertly at risk of their lives. On his return Pro serveda Church which was forced to go \"underground.\" He celebrated theEucharist clandestinely and ministered the other sacraments to small groups ofCatholics.

Detailsof Pro\'s ministry in the underground church come from his many letters, signedwith the nickname Cocol. In October 1926, a warrant for his arrest was issued.He was arrested and released from prison the next day, but kept undersurveillance.

A failedattempt to assassinate Álvaro Obregón, which only wounded him, in November1927, provided the state with a pretext for arresting Pro again, this time withhis brothers Humberto and Roberto. A young engineer who confessed his part inthe attempted assassination testified that the Pro brothers were not involved.Miguel and his brothers were taken to the Detective Inspector\'s Office inMexico City.

OnNovember 23, 1927, Pro was executed without trial. President Calles gave ordersto have Pro executed for the assassination attempt. Calles had the executionmeticulously photographed, and the newspapers throughout the country carriedphotos on the front page the following day. Presumably, Calles thought that thesight of the pictures would frighten the Cristero rebels who were fighting againsthis troops, particularly in the state of Jalisco. However, they had theopposite effect.

On 23November 1927, Miguel Agustín Pro, Mexican Jesuit, is executed by a firingsquad (in Mexico City).

When thefiring squad shots failed to kill him, a soldier administered a coup de grâce.

Pro andhis brothers were visited by Generals Roberto Cruz and Palomera Lopez around 11p.m. on November 22, 1927. The next day, as Pro walked from his cell to thecourtyard and the firing squad, he blessed the soldiers, knelt, and brieflyprayed quietly. Declining a blindfold, he faced his executioners with acrucifix in one hand and a rosary in the other and held his arms out inimitation of the crucified Christ and shouted out, \"May God have mercy onyou! May God bless you! Lord, Thou knowest that I am innocent! With all myheart I forgive my enemies!\" Before the firing squad was ordered to shoot,Pro raised his arms in imitation of Christ and shouted the defiant cry of theCristeros, \"¡Viva Cristo Rey!\" – \"Long live Christ theKing!\". When the initial shots of the firing squad failed to kill him, asoldier shot him at point-blank range.

Calles isreported to have looked down upon a throng of 40,000 which lined Pro\'s funeralprocession. Another 20,000 waited at the cemetery where he was buried without apriest present, his father saying the final words. The Cristeros became moreanimated and fought with renewed enthusiasm, many of them carrying thenewspaper photo of Pro before the firing squad.

Neithersuffering nor serious illness, nor the exhausting ministerial activity,frequently carried out in difficult and dangerous circumstances, could stiflethe radiating and contagious joy which he brought to his life for Christ andwhich nothing could take away. Indeed, the deepest root of self-sacrificingsurrender for the lowly was his passionate love for Jesus Christ and his ardentdesire to be conformed to him, even unto death.