Beatification of Blessed Stanley Rother

Alex Kroll (center), from Enid, carries the cross as he processes from the Beatification of Blessed Stanley Rother at the Cox Convention Center Saturday, September 23, 2017. Clergy, from across Oklahoma and around the world, honored guests and more than 17,000 of the faithful attended the historic event honoring The Venerable Servant of God Stanley Francis Rother. Pope Francis declared Father Rother the first martyr born in the United States. Rother is the first United States born priest to be beatified. (Bonnie Vculek / Enid News & Eagle)

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