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Agustín Caloca Cortés

Agustín Caloca Cortés

Saint
May 21 · 1898–1927

Agustín Caloca Cortés (1898, Zacatecas — 1927, Colotlán Municipality) — Saint, Catholic priest. Feast day: 21 May.

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Agustín Caloca Cortés was a Mexican Catholic priest born in Zacatecas in 1898. During the Cristero War, he served as a parish priest and as a prefect for an auxiliary seminary. He is remembered for his leadership of students during a period of intense anticlericalism and for his refusal to accept freedom unless his fellow priest was also released. He was killed by a firing squad in Colotlán in 1927.

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