O faithful shepherd, Blessed Stanley Rother, as priest and missionary, you tilled the soil with your hands and invited Christ Jesus to till the soil of your soulYou became a sign of love of Christ the Good Shepherd for your people, and blessed their lives by

Blessed Stanley Rother Stanley Francis Rother was born March , , in Okarche, OklahomaHe grew up on a farm and attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church and SchoolWhile he served as a Catholic priest in Guatemala, a civil war raged between the

The shrine for Okarches native son, The Blessed Stanley Rother, and the location where the Catholic martyrs final resting place is planned, is now under construction in southeast Oklahoma CityIts a monumental event for the Archdiocese and actually for

Blessed Stanley Rother's Story On May , , Stanley Rother, a farmer's son from Okarche, Oklahoma, was ordained for his home diocese of Oklahoma City TulsaHaving flunked out of the area seminary due to his difficulty with Latin, FrRother finally accepted an invitation to attend Mount StMary Seminary in Maryland, where he finished his studies and was approved for ordination.

O faithful shepherd, Blessed Stanley Rother, as priest and missionary, you tilled the soil with your hands and invited Christ Jesus to till the soil of your soulYou became a sign of love of Christ the Good Shepherd for your people, and blessed their lives by your

Stanley Francis Rother (March , July , ) was an American Roman Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala.Ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City in , he held several parish assignments there until when he was assigned as a missionary priest to Guatemala where he was murdered in in his Guatemalan mission rectory.

Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine, Oklahoma City, OK likes · talking about thisCatholic Shrine He remembered the Father searching forand sometimes recoveringbodies of the villages disappearedHe remembered the priest setting up a fund for the

Blessed Stanley Rothers story is the subject of various books, documentaries and an upcoming feature filmThe Archdiocese of Oklahoma City is in the final stages of design of a , seat shrine church, museum and campus in his honor, to be located in south Oklahoma City.

An excerpt from the biography "The Shepherd Who Didn't Run FrStanley Rother, Martyr from Oklahoma" by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda Monsignor Hugh JPhillips, the college librarian and director of the Grotto, remembered Stanley's frequent visits on his own to the Marian shrine "He had a tender devotion to the Blessed Mother."

The Fr Stanley FRother Guild Facebook Philip Kosloski published on Described as an ordinary priest, Stanley Rother was officially recognized in as the first martyr of the