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.

• St. Louis Bertrand, Dominican priest (1671, Panama and the Caribbean)
• St. Anthony Mary Claret, Archbishop of Santiago (1950, Cuba)
• St. Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz, Augustinian Recollect (1992, Dominican Republic)
• St. Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur, founder of the Order of Betlemitas (2002, Guatemala)

List of blesseds

• Bl. Armando Oscar Valdes, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, Martyr in Spain (Cuba)
• Bl. Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás, Cardinal (was a priest in Cuba; later Patriarch of the West Indies)
• Bl. Encarnación Rosal (born Maria Vicenta Rosal Vasquez), Betlemite Sister (Guatemala)
• Bl. Jacques-Jules Bonnaud, Jesuit priest, Martyr in France (Haiti)
• Bl. José López Piteira, Augustinian deacon (Cuba)
• Bl. José Olallo, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God (Cuba)
• Bl. María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña, Foundress of the Sisters of the Catechetical Institute of Dolores Sopeña (active in Cuba 1873-1877)
• Bl. Maria Romero Meneses, Salesian Sister (Costa Rica and Nicaragua)
• Bl. Óscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)

List of venerables

• Ven. Félix Varela, priest (Cuba)
• Ven. Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cuba)
• Ven. Jerónimo Usera, priest (Cuba)
• Ven. Leo Dupont, layman (Martinique)
• Ven. Maria Antonia Paris, Foundress of the Claretian Sisters (Cuba)
• Ven. Pierre Toussaint, layman (Haiti)

List of Servants of God

• Servant of God Mariano Dubon Alonso, 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 Rutilio Grande Garcia, Jesuit priest (El Salvador)
• 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:

• Four U.S missionaries raped and murdered by a Salvadoran government death squad in 1980:
  • Maura Clarke, Maryknoll Sister
  • Ita Ford, Maryknoll Sister
  • Dorothy Kazel, Ursuline Sister
  • Jean Donovan, laywoman
• Archbishop Anthony Pantin, Holy Ghost Father (Trinidad & Tobago)

See also

• Roman Catholicism in North America
• List of American saints and beatified people
• List of Canadian Roman Catholic saints
• List of Mexican Saints
• List of Brazilian Saints
• List of South American Saints

References

• "Hagiography Circle"