A small portion of an ankle bone belonging to Saint Toribio Romo — the patron saint of immigrants — sits in a glass enclosure about the size of a big watch face. That enclosure sits right in ...

Before leaving Jalisco, Ochoa said, his grandfather gave him a small, laminated photo of Santo Toribio. Ochoa had never heard of the saint, but his grandfather told him: “Have faith in him.

One testimonio poster shows a photograph of an eighteen-year-old woman with a message from her parents thanking Saint Toribio “for having granted us the miracle of finding the body of our ...

"This is a really important saint because it's the saint of immigrants." Santo Toribio hails from a small town in the Mexican state of Jalisco. The statue made its first stop in Los Angeles last ...

In addition, a statue of St. Toribio Romo was unveiled and celebrated as an advocate for immigrants and religious liberty for his martyrdom during the Mexican Revolution nearly a century ago.

On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Toribio de Mogrovejo. "If a single person symbolized paradigmatically colonial Christendom, it would be Toribio de Mogrovejo, the heroic Archbishop of ...

Relics of St. Junípero Serra, St. Toribio Romo, St. John Baptist Scalabrini and St. Frances Xavier Cabrini — who are all saints of great significance to the Catholic immigrant community ...

A small portion of an ankle bone belonging to Saint Toribio Romo — the patron saint of immigrants — sits in a glass enclosure about the size of a big watch face. That enclosure sits right in ...

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