List of Central American and Caribbean saints

This page is a list of Central American and Caribbean saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of North America, excluding Mexico, Canada and the United States.

The Cruz de la Parra, in Baracoa, is the last surviving of the 29 crosses planted in the New World by Columbus. It is the oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the Americas.

The first unquestioned presence of the Catholic Church in the Americas was in this region, when Christopher Columbus first set foot on San Salvador. The oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the New World, the Cruz de la Parra, is kept in what is now Cuba.

List of saints

The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated. As a fact, of the list only St. Óscar Romero is the only native saint of Central America[1] and the Caribbean. The rest were Spanish missionaries who carried out their apostolic work in these American countries.

List of blesseds

List of venerables
  • Ven. Leo Dupont, layman (Martinique)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 March 1983
  • Ven. Maria Antonia Paris, Foundress of the Claretian Sisters (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 23 December 1993
  • Ven. Pierre Toussaint, layman (Haiti)
    • Declared Venerable: 17 December 1996
  • Ven. Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 28 June 1999
  • Ven. Jerónimo Usera, priest (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 28 June 1999
  • Ven. Félix Varela, priest (Cuba)
    • Declared Venerable: 14 March 2012
  • Ven. Rafael Cordero Molina, layperson (Puerto Rico)
    • Declared Venerable: 9 December 2013
  • Ven. María Consuelo Sanjurjo Santos, Foundress of the Congregation of the Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick (Puerto Rico)
    • Declared Venerable: 15 January 2019
  • Ven. Augustin Arnaud Pagès (Nymphas Victorin), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Haute-Loire, France – San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    • Declared Venerable: 6 April 2019
  • Ven. José María Gran Cirera and 9 Companions, laypersons of the diocese of Quiché (Guatemala)
    • Declared Venerable: 23 January 2020
  • Ven. Rutilio Grande Garcia, Jesuit priest (El Salvador)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 February 2020
  • Ven. Manuel Solorzano, layman (El Salvador)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 February 2020
  • Ven. Nelson Lemus, layperson (El Salvador)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 February 2020
  • Ven. Cosme Spessotto, Capuchin priest (El Salvador)
    • Declared Venerable: 26 May 2020

List of Servants of God
  • Servant of God Antonio de Valdivieso O.P., bishop and protomartyr for the defense of the Native Americans (Nicaragua)
  • Servant of God Mariano Dubon Alonso, secular priest (Nicaragua)
  • Servant of God Remigio Salazar y Amador, secular priest (Nicaragua)
  • Servant of God Casimir Cypher (born Michael Jerome Cypher), Franciscan Conventual priest (Honduras)
  • Servant of God Moises Gonzalez Crespo, Augustinian priest (Panama)
  • Servant of God Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange (Cuba) (Haiti) nun, founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence.

Other open causes

Others have been proposed for beatification, and may have active groups supporting their causes. These include:

See also

References
  1. La historia de Monseñor Romero; el primer santo centroamericano
  • Habig, Marion A. (1974). Saints of the Americas. Our Sunday Visitor. ISBN 0-87973-880-4.
  • "Hagiography Circle"
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