Peter of Jesus Maldonado

Pedro de Jesús Maldonado Lucero (June 15, 1892 – February 11, 1937) was a Mexican diocesan priest who became the first canonized saint and martyr from Chihuahua City, Mexico.

"[2] In 1914 the seminary was shut down due to the revolution and many seminarians fled to El Paso, Texas,[3] but Maldonado remained in Chihuahua and studied music.

Revolutionaries changed the name of the town from Santa Isabel to "General Trias" as part of an effort to erase references to Catholicism from the state.

At one point Maldonado had to flee to El Paso[5] but was eventually returned to Boquilla del Río, not far from Santa Isabel.

On February 10, 1937 (Ash Wednesday), a group of drunken armed men discovered his location at a nearby ranch.

Maldonado was brought barefoot to the town hall, where he was pistol-whipped, fracturing his skull and dislodging his left eye from its socket.

[7] The relics of Pedro de Jesús Maldonado are found in a wooden urn in the Chapel of the Lord of Mapimí in the Cathedral of Chihuahua.