List of venerated Central Americans and Caribbeans

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This page is a list of venerated Central Americans and Caribbeans includes saints, blesseds, venerables, and servants of god, as recognized by the Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of North America excluding Mexico, Canada and the United States.

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The Cruz de la Parra, in Baracoa, is the last surviving of the 29 crosses planted in the New World by Columbus. It is the oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the Americas. Cruz de la Parra.JPG
The Cruz de la Parra, in Baracoa, is the last surviving of the 29 crosses planted in the New World by Columbus. It is the oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the Americas.

The first unquestioned presence of the Catholic Church in the Americas was in this region, when Christopher Columbus first set foot on San Salvador. The oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the New World, the Cruz de la Parra, is kept in what is now Cuba.

List of saints

The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated. As a fact, in the list Óscar Romero is the only native saint of Central America [1] and the Caribbean. The rest were Spanish missionaries who carried out their apostolic work in these American countries.

List of blesseds

List of venerables

List of Servants of God

Other open causes

Others have been proposed for beatification, and may have active groups supporting their causes. These include:

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