Martyrs of Tlaxcala: Cristobal, Antonio and Juan«Niños Mártires de Tlaxcala: Cristóbal, Antonio y Juan»

(c. 1515–1527/1529)
Martyrs
Protomartyrs of the American continent / Protomártires del continente Americano
Place of birth:Triple Alliance (Aztec Empire)
Place of death:Kingdom of Mexico††
Feastday
23 September
Beatification
06/05/1990 by Ioannes Paulus II
Canonisation
15/10/2017 by Franciscus
Patronage
Patron of:Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala†††
Patron of:Mexican children, people ridiculed for their piety
Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān / Triple Alianza (Imperio mexica) [1428–1521]
††Reino de México / Reyno de México Tenvxtitlan [1527–1535]
†††Tlahtohcayotl Tlaxcallan / Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia