Mateo Correa Magallanes
Mateo Correa Magallanes | |
|---|---|
| Martyr | |
| Born | July 23, 1866 Tepechitlán, Zacatecas, Mexican Empire |
| Died | February 6, 1927 (aged 60) |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Beatified | November 22, 1992 by Pope John Paul II |
| Canonized | May 21, 2000 by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | May 21 |
Mateo Correa Magallanes (also known as Mateo Correa, Fr. Correa; July 23, 1866 – February 6, 1927) was a Knight of Columbus, of Council 2140.
Correa was born at Tepechitlán, Zacatecas, Mexico. He attended the seminary at Zacatecas on a scholarship, in 1881. He was ordained as priest in 1893 at the age of 27. As a young priest, he gave first communion to Miguel Pro who also became a priest and was later martyred. Correa was assigned as a parish priest to Concepción del Oro in 1898, and then to Colotlán in 1908. Following the government's repression of the Catholic Church in 1910, he went into hiding. He was assigned to Valparaíso in 1926.