Rafael Guizar Valencia
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Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia, born April 26, 1878 and died on June 6, 1938, was a Catholic bishop who cared for the wounded and dying in Mexico's 1910-17 revolution. Named bishop of Veracruz, he was driven out of his home diocese and forced to live the remainder of his life in hiding in Mexico City. He was also a Knight of Columbus.
His body was exhumed in 1950, twelve years after his death, and witnesses have said it had not decayed, except for the left eye, which he was said to have offered up for a sinner during his lifetime.
Pope Benedict XVI canonized Bishop Guizar Valencia as a saint on October 15, 2006.
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