births
April 26, 1878
Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (died 1938)
Rafael Guízar y Valencia
Rafael Guízar y Valencia was a Mexican bishop of the Roman Catholic Church who was persecuted during the Mexican Revolution. Named Bishop of Xalapa in 1919, he was driven out of his diocese and forced to live the remainder of his life in hiding in Mexico City. Pope Benedict XVI canonized Guízar on 15 October 2006.