| Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
| Pedro Esqueda Ramirez | |
| Birth Date: | 29 April 1887 |
| Titles: | Priest |
| Venerated In: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified Place: | ] |
| Beatified By: | Pope John XXIII |
| Canonized Date: | 21 May 2000 |
Pedro Esqueda Ramírez' (San Juan de los Lagos, April 29 of 1887 - Teocaltiche, November 22 of 1927) was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr Canonized by John Paul II on May 21, 2000.[1] [2]
He entered the seminary in Guadalajara at the age of fifteen, being ordained a priest in 1916. He was appointed vicar of San Juan de los Lagos.
As a result of the Cristero War, Esqueda continued to celebrate Mass secretly, which is why he was apprehended and tortured by the Mexican Army and shot on November 22, 1927 in the vicinity of Teocaltitán, in Jalisco.[3]
His remains are in the presbytery of the Cathedral Basilica of San Juan de los Lagos.[4]
He was canonized by John Paul II on May 21, 2000, along with twenty-six other Mexican religious and lay people, many of them victims of the religious persecution unleashed in Mexico during the Cristero War (1926-1929)[5]