Father Stanley Rother

An Oklahoma farmer, Stanley Francis Rother, is the first U.S.-born priest to be declared blessed. In Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, the village Father Rother served for the final 13 years of his life, the people remember and honor a faithful priest, a farmer who plowed the fields alongside them, a shepherd who proclaimed the Gospel with his life, a courageous man who chose to remain with them even when violence threatened—and eventually took—his life.