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Andr\u00e9s\u00a0Sol\u00e1\u00a0Molist\u00a0was born in the town of\u00a0Taradell, Spain on October 7th, 1895. The preaching of some Claretians in his parish helped him discover his missionary vocation. He joined the Congregation of Missionaries in 1909. He was ordained priest in Segovia\u00a0on September 23rd, 1922.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At 27 years of age, on August 28th, 1923, he was assigned to Mexico,\u00a0with five other Claretian missionaries. The first year of his stay in Mexico he combined teaching in the Claretian Seminary of Toluca with preaching. During Christmas of 1924,\u00a0he was transferred to the city of Le\u00f3n. Father\u00a0Sol\u00e1\u00a0carried out an intense evangelization activity: he preached many sermons, he gave missions in different towns and spiritual exercises to all types of people;\u00a0he took charge of the catechesis and the worship activities in the Temple of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Father Andrew exercised his\u00a0ministry for only a short time because in August of 1925 the anticlerical dispositions of the Mexican Constitution were applied with all rigor. Fr.\u00a0Sol\u00e1\u00a0took refuge in house of the Alba sisters, but he continued clandestinely exercising the ministry, preaching and administering the sacraments. Talking about him, one of his superiors describes him as\u00a0\u201ca very young missionary, but with great daring for work\u201d<\/i>. His actions are motivated by his missionary vocation, but with the prudence required by the circumstances, and in prudence he was moved to Mexico City. With the permission of his Superiors, he returned to\u00a0Le\u00f3n, conscious of the danger that this presented for him, remembering that during the time of his formation,\u00a0\u201che had a great desire to be a martyr\u201d<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Again,\u00a0in\u00a0Le\u00f3n, at the Alba sisters\u2019 house, he met Fr. Trinidad Rangel, who was also in hiding. They established an intimate friendship in the brief period of their acquaintance, as Fr. Rangel was sent by his Superiors to celebrate the Easter services in San Francisco del\u00a0Rinc\u00f3n, where he was arrested, taken back to\u00a0Le\u00f3n\u00a0and jailed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When some women went to the Commandant to see about Fr. Rangel, they inadvertently made reference to Fr.\u00a0Sol\u00e1. Upon leaving the station, they were followed by the police to the house of the Alba sisters, where they discovered Mr.\u00a0Leonard P\u00e9rez, praying in the oratory before the Blessed Sacrament, and Fr.\u00a0Sol\u00e1, on whom they found incriminating photographs and objects. They were arrested and taken to the Seminary that served at times as the military commandant\u2019s office. It was about noon on April 24th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The military accused the three detainees of having derailed a train, two days before, between the stations of Mira and Los Salas, in the ranch called San Joaquin. After a mock process they were condemned to death, but the only and true reason\u00a0for\u00a0their execution was that they were priests, true for Frs. Rangel and\u00a0Sol\u00e1, and supposed in the case of\u00a0Leonard\u00a0P\u00e9rez.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The prisoners, at 8 p.m. of the same day of the 24th,\u00a0 were taken by train to the place of the derailment of which they were accused.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It was 8:45 in the morning of the 25th April when the three condemned received the rifle fire\u00a0which was a\u00a0coup de\u00a0gr\u00e2ce\u00a0for\u00a0Trinidad Rangel and\u00a0Leonard P\u00e9rez. Fr. Andr\u00e9s\u00a0Sol\u00e1, still alive, bathed in his own blood in the middle of a petroleum pool, was found by those who worked on the repair of the rails, once the soldiers had left. He was able say that he was a priest and that he and his companions \u201cdie for Jesus, die for God<\/i>\u201d and he requested that they advise his mother of his death but\u00a0\u201cthat her son is a martyr\u201d<\/i>. After two hours of terrible agony in which he repeated\u00a0\u201cJesus mercy, Jesus forgive<\/i>\u00a0me!\u00a0<\/i>Jesus,<\/i>\u00a0I die for your cause<\/i>\u201d<\/i>,<\/i>\u00a0his surrender to the Lord ended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The three \u00abMartyrs of San Joaquin\u00bb were beatified in Guadalajara (Mexico) on November 20th, 2005.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Blessed Andr\u00e9s Sol\u00e1, martyr in M\u00e9xico Andr\u00e9s\u00a0Sol\u00e1\u00a0Molist\u00a0was born in the town of\u00a0Taradell, Spain on October 7th, 1895. The preaching of some Claretians in his parish helped him discover his missionary vocation. He joined the Congregation of Missionaries in 1909. 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