SAINT OF THE DAY (November 23): BL. MIGUEL PRO(1891-1927), priest and martyr.
SAINT OF THE DAY (November 23): BL. MIGUEL PRO(1891-1927), priest and martyr. José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, also known as Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ was a Mexican Jesuit priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on the false charges of bombing and attempted assassination of former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón. Miguel Pro was born into a mining family on January 13, 1891, in Guadalupe, Zacatecas. He was the third of eleven children, four of whom had died as infants or young children. From a young age, he was called "Cocol" as a nickname. Two of his sisters joined a convent. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at El Llano on August 15, 1911. One of his companions, Pulido, said that he "had never seen such an exquisite wit, never coarse, always sparkling. He was noted for his charity and ability to speak about spiritual subjects without boring his audience." Pulido remarked that there were two Pros: the playful Pro and the prayerful Pro. He was