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Photos of the Week: Feb. 27, 2023
New shrine to Blessed Stanley Rother to be dedicated in Oklahoma City
Pilgrims will walk from Blessed Stanley Rother’s hometown of Okarche, Oklahoma, to Oklahoma City for the Feb. 17 dedication of the shrine named for the U.S. missionary priest martyred in Guatemala.
Shrine honoring Blessed Stanley Rother hits milestone as dome set in place
Workers Aug. 12 carefully lifted the 45,000-pound dome onto the chapel in Oklahoma City memorializing Blessed Father Stanley Rother Aug. 12. Construction is expected to be completed in summer 2022.
Rothers still rooted to land where martyred priest and siblings grew up
Tom Rother is a brother to the first U.S.-born martyr, Father Stanley Rother, who will be beatified Sept. 23 in Oklahoma City. He was gunned down in 1981 in the Guatemalan village where he ministered.
Oklahoma set to welcome world for beatification of ‘ordinary’ native son
On Sept. 23, Oklahomans will get a front row seat to the beatification of Father Stanley Rother, an ordinary man from an ordinary town, who died extraordinarily as a martyr in Guatemala while serving in a mission.
Trailer released for Father Rother documentary
A documentary titled “The Shepherd Cannot Run: Father Rother’s Story,” about U.S. priest who worked in Guatemala for 14 years until he was brutally murdered in 1981 will be shown prior to his beatified in September.
Pope recognizes martyrdom of Oklahoma priest killed in Guatemala
Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, making him the first martyr born in the United States.