We had been looking for the final resting place of Blessed Miguel Pro for some years. We finally tracked down the church where a beautiful shrine has been built to the Martyr of the 1920's. December 1993, we left a week before our annual Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe begins. We wanted not only to be able to videotape Miguel's shrine, but we wanted to bring our pilgrims to it. For years, we have been looking for the place where he was executed. We finally found it. We knew it was off the main boulevard in Mexico City; where this brave and holy priest was martyred
jordans slippers , today, a monument to greed stands - the National Lottery building. We got our driver to bring us there, and we kept walking around the building looking for a plaque designating the place where Miguel Pro had been executed. We couldn't find it. Our guide and friend, a Mexican
nike heels cheap , went inside the National Lottery building to ask if anyone knew where it was. Nobody there knew anything about it. But as we stubbornly walked around the building, searching, a guard on the other side of the street, in back of the National Lottery building, called us over. He pointed to the wall in back of him, which was almost completely covered by electric cables. There it was, about 8 by 12 inches. It said (I'm paraphrasing now), "Across the street from this place, at the beginning of the stairway
nike shox make your own , is the spot where Fr. Miguel Pro was executed on November 23, 1927." We stood there. It was a strange feeling. All he had to do was hide, to deny Christ and the Church; instead, on this spot Bl. Padre Pro, Martyr, raised a Rosary in one hand and the crucifix he was given on the day of his ordination in the other, blessed his executioners and cried out "Viva Cristo Rey! - Long live Christ the King!