It’s been more than two decades since work began on Guadalajara’s Santuario de los Mártires Mexicanos (Sanctuary to the Mexican martyrs) and although the massive religious edifice is still unfinished, it has been welcoming pilgrims and celebrating three masses each Sunday for several years now.
Located atop a hill in Tlaquepaque’s economically challenged Cerro de Cuatro barrio to the south of the metropolitan area, the Santuario was planned to be Mexico’s largest and most lavish religious edifice and a major tourism draw for the city.
Honoring 25 of Mexico’s Catholic martyrs of the Cristero War of the 1920s, its piecemeal construction has dragged on over 25 years due the irregular speed of donations trickling in from Catholic communities in Mexico and around the world.
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