List of Mexican Catholic saints


The Catholic Church recognizes some deceased Catholics as saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God. Some of these people were born, died, or lived their religious life in the present territory of Mexico. Because of missionaries who spent greater or lesser amounts of time in Mexico en route to other mission lands, exact numbers of Mexican saints vary. The Catholic Church has been present in what is now Mexico since the earliest years of the sixteenth century. As early as 1517, the expedition of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba brought Catholicism to the Yucatan, where the first diocese in continental North America would be erected in 1518. Mexico's first saint was canonized in 1862. Today, Mexico accounts for more saints and Blesseds than any other country in the Western Hemisphere.

Mexican venerables

Mexican Servants of God

  • Bartolomé de las Casas, Professed Priest of the Dominicans; Bishop of Chiapas
  • Juan Bautista de Moya Valenzuela, Professed Priest of the Augustinians
  • Juana Inés de Asbaje Ramírez de Santillana, Professed Religious of the Hieronymite Nuns
  • Luis Felipe Neri de Alfaro Velásquez, Priest of the Oratorians
  • Antonio Alcalde Barriga, Professed Priest of the Dominicans; Bishop of Guadalajara
  • Cesárea Ruiz de Esparza Dávalos, Founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Mexico
  • José Antonio Plancarte Labastida, Priest of the Archdiocese of Mexico; Founder of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate of Guadalupe
  • José Anastasio Díaz López, Priest of the Diocese of Zacatecas; Founder of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Guadalupe
  • Miguel Cano Gutiérrez, Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara; Founder of the Servants of the Holy Trinity and the Poor
  • Eugenio Oláez Anda, Priest of the Diocese of León; Founder of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • María de la Luz Elisa Berruecos Juvera, Founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • María Eugenia González Lafón, Founder of the Catechist Sisters of Mary Most Holy, Order of Saint Benedict
  • Alfonso Pérez Larios, Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit
  • María Dolores Echevarría Esparza, Cofounder of the Missionaries of Jesus the Priest
  • Gloria Esperanza Elizondo García, Professed Religious of the Catechist Sisters of the Poor
  • María Regina Sánchez Muñoz, Founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Guadalupe
  • José Soledad de Jesús Torres Castañeda, Bishop of Ciudad Obregón; Martyr
  • Roberto Cuellar García, Professed Priest of the Jesuits
  • Antonio Hernández Gallegos, Bishop of Tabasco
  • Rebeca María de Uriarte Healy, Founder of the Oblate Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Martha Christlieb Ibarrola, Cofounder of the Sisters of the True Cross, Daughters of the Church
  • Juan Pablo Góngora Alvarado, Priest of the Archdiocese of Yucatán; Founder of the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Mother of Light
  • María Concepcíon Álvarez Icaza, Professed Religious of the Visitation Nuns
  • Maura Degollado Guízar de Maciel, Married Layperson of the Diocese of Tlalnepantla
  • Juan María Navarrete Guerrero, Archbishop of Hermosillo
  • José Abraham Martínez Betancourt, Bishop of Tacámbaro; Founder of the Servants of the Immaculate Conception
  • Carlos Rosado Contraros, Priest of the Archdiocese of Yucatán
  • José Ochoa Gutierrez, Priest of the Diocese of Zamora; Founder of the Missionaries of the Holy Family and the Parochial Workers of the Holy Family
  • Vincenzo Idà, Priest of the Diocese of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi; Founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Catechism and the Missionaries of Evangelization
  • Ana María Gómez Campos, Cofounder of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit
  • María Cristina Olimpia Macotela Durán, Professed Religious of the Capuchin Poor Clares of the Blessed Sacrament
  • José del Pilar Quezada Valdés, Bishop of Acapulco
  • Virginia Padilla Jiménez, Founder of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows, Reparatrices of Her Sorrows
  • Marina Francisca Cinta Sarrelangue de Balmori, Married Layperson of the Diocese of Coatzacoalcos
  • María del Carmen López Guzmán, Professed Religious of the Servants of the Holy Trinity and the Poor
  • Federico de Aguinaga López, Layperson of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara
  • Saturnino García Lara, Priest of the Archdiocese of Morelia
  • Basilio Rueda Guzmán, Professed Religious of the Marist Brothers of the Schools
  • Salvador Rivera García, Professed Priest of the Discalced Carmelites
  • Antonietta Böhm Schwanewilm, Professed Religious of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians
  • Adalberto Almeida Merino, Archbishop of Chihuáhua
  • Ramón Sáinz Orozco, Married Layperson of the Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos; Martyr
  • Martín Lawers González, Priest of the Diocese of Irapuato; Martyr

Group Martyrs

Martyrs of Tepehuanes :
  • *Fernando de Tobar, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr
  • *Bernardo de Cisneros, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr
  • *Diego de Orozco, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr
  • *Juan del Valle, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr
  • *Luis de Alavés, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr
  • *Juan Fonte, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr
  • *Jeronimo de Moranta, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr
  • *Fernando de Santarén, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr Martyrs of the Mexican Republic:
  • * Inocencio López Velarde Morán, Priest of the Diocese of Zacatecas
  • * Pascual Vega Alvarado, Priest of the Diocese of Zacatecas
  • * Charles-Alphonse Astruc, Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
  • * Jean-François-Théophile Gilles, Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
  • * Mariano Bermúdez González, Professed Religious of the Claretians
  • * Miguel Pérez Rubio, Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara
  • * Andrés Avelino Flores Quesney, Priest of the Diocese of Ciudad Obregon
  • * Crescenciano Aguilar Zúñiga, Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara
  • * José García Farfán, Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Puebla
  • * Joaquín de Silva Carrasco, Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City
  • * Manuel Melgarejo Nápoles, Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City
  • * José Vargas Reyes, Layperson of the Archdiocese of Morelia
  • * José Natividad Herrero Delgado, Child of the Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos
  • * Juan Manuel Bonilla Manzano, Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City
  • * Florentino Alvarez Medina, Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of León
  • * Tomás de la Mora, Priest of the Diocese of Colima
  • * Pablo García Fernández, Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara
  • * María del Carmen Robles Ibarra, Layperson of the Diocese of Zacatecas
  • * Antonio Méndez Padrón, Priest of the Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí
  • * Emilio Pérez Michel, Priest of the Diocese of Autlán
  • * Salvador Gutiérrez de Mora, Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City
  • * José de Jesús Mora Salado, Priest of the Diocese of Ciudad Guzmán
  • * Ramón Parada López, Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara
  • * Zenaida Llerenas Torres, Young Layperson of the Diocese of Colima
  • * David Maduro Vertiz, Professed Priest of the Jesuits
  • * Gabriel Ángel García Morales, Young Layperson of the Diocese of Tabasco
  • * Francisco Marmolejo, Married Layperson of the Diocese of Aguascalientes
  • * Adolfo Mota Pineda, Priest of the Diocese of Colima
  • * Leonor Sánchez López, Young Layperson of the Diocese of Orizaba

Mexican candidates for sainthood

  • Martín de Valencia, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor
  • Juan de Zumárraga, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor; Bishop of Mexico City
  • Gregorio López, Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City; Hermit
  • Pedro de Agurto, Professed Priest of the Augustinians; Bishop of Cebu
  • Diego Bazan, Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City; Martyr
  • Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor
  • Luigi Corsini, Professed Priest of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus; Martyr
  • Rodolfo Aguilar Álvarez, Priest of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua
  • Juan Morán Samaniego, Priest of the Diocese of Altacomulco; Martyr
  • María Concepción Zúñiga López, Founder of the Franciscan Minim Sisters of the Atonement of the Perpetual Help of Mary and the Franciscan Minim Friars of the Atonement of the Perpetual Help of Mary
  • Luz Marina Valencia Triviño, Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception
  • Carlos Abascal, Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mexico City
  • Juan Miguel Contreras García, Priest of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara; Martyr