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SANTIAGO ATITLAN – A few months before Blessed Stanley Rother was murdered in Guatemala, an iconic photograph of him holding the hand of a young girl was captured outside of his parish in Santiago Atitlan.

The American Indian Catholic Outreach Office for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City named its inaugural princess during the archdiocese’s first-ever Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Honor Dance on July 6 at Saint John Nepomuk in Yukon.

SANTIAGO ATITLAN – Among the 50 pilgrims joining Archbishop Coakley for a pilgrimage to Guatemala for the feast day of Blessed Stanley Rother, were Blessed Stanley’s nephews, Ken and Matt Rother. They are the sons of Blessed Stanley’s brother Jim Rother, who died of Leukemia at age 36, and Mary Lou McInturff, who also made the trip.

On the feast day of Blessed Stanley Rother at his home parish of Holy Trinity in Okarche, a new painting of the martyred priest baptizing a child was unveiled. Half a world away, in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, a print of the artwork was presented to the people he loved and served until his death.

At the very beginning of his journey to becoming a monk at Saint Gregory’s Abbey, Brother Peter Shults only could describe what he was feeling as a hunger.

The little girl featured in an iconic photo with Bl. Stanley Rother in the 1980s in Guatemala attended the feast day Mass in Santiago Atitlan on July 28, 2019, where she met with Archbishop Coakley.

Letter provides vision for diocese through 2030