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By Tony Guti\u00e9rrez, OSV News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(OSV News) \u2014 Francisco Bocel remembers the night three assassins forced him to bring them to Father Stanley Rother. Bocel shared how he still carries that traumatic moment with him \u2014 one of many being featured \u2014 in an upcoming documentary on the life of the slain priest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmerican Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story,\u201d<\/a> scheduled to be released in theaters nationwide Aug. 25-27, tells the story of Blessed Stanley Rother through those who knew him \u2014 parishioners, catechists and family members \u2014 as well as those currently involved in his cause for canonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born and raised in the small town of Okarche, Oklahoma, about an hour northwest of Oklahoma City, Stanley Rother became a priest of what was then the Diocese of Oklahoma City-Tulsa in 1963. Five years later, he joined the diocese\u2019s mission staff in Santiago At\u00edtlan, Guatemala, where he spent the remainder of his life and ministry. By helping improve the lives of the people he served, Father Stanley \u2014 or \u201cPadre Apla\u2019s\u201d as the Tz\u2019utujil Maya called him \u2014 was considered a threat. In the early morning hours of July 28, 1981, the three gunmen killed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His cause was opened in 2007, and in 2016, Pope Francis officially recognized his martyrdom, clearing the way for his beatification the following year. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City built a shrine<\/a> to Blessed Rother and dedicated it in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The voices of those who knew him<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Director Derek Watson from Lampstand Story Company filmed on location in Oklahoma and Guatemala, as well as other sites significant to Blessed Rother\u2019s life. The company had previously produced an award-winning mini-documentary on Blessed Rother, \u201cAn Ordinary Martyr: The Life and Death of Blessed Stanley Rother,\u201d which premiered at the beatification<\/a>. While in Santiago, Watson experienced walking in the martyred priest\u2019s footsteps not only in the church but in the homes of the parishioners he visited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of those interviews were conducted in their homes, on their porches. This is a story that means something to them. They remember the moment July 28 when they woke up to know that their beloved priest and father and friend had been essentially executed; those are hard, dark moments, and they relived them for us,\u201d Watson said. \u201cBut it\u2019s also the moments of joy, too. We tend to start off with what life was like in Santiago, what it was like to be in Blessed Stan\u2019s presence, and they speak with such joy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Martin Sheen narrates the documentary. The acclaimed Catholic actor read \u201cThe Shepherd Who Didn\u2019t Run\u201d<\/a> \u2014 the official biography of Blessed Rother by cause promoter Mar\u00eda Ru\u00edz Scaperlanda \u2014 and felt drawn to the story, Scaperlanda said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have been very touched by his generous spirit in wanting to do something that he knew would enrich the faith of a person,\u201d said Scaperlanda, who also serves as an executive producer for the film. \u201cThe idea that a person living in Malibu who is clearly a high-ranking actor that this is something that matters to him because he fell in love with this farmer from Oklahoma and sees him as a model that he can emulate, that\u2019s all very moving to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praying for the miracle that will lead to canonization<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Archbishop Paul S. Coakley<\/a> of Oklahoma City is asked in the documentary what it would take for Blessed Rother to be canonized, he replies simply with, \u201cIt will take a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expanding on that, the archbishop \u2014 who also serves as executive producer \u2014 told OSV News that he doesn\u2019t mean that as an impossibility; rather, it\u2019s a trust and hope for God\u2019s glory to be manifested through miracles due to Blessed Rother\u2019s intercession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI offer that as a real possibility and an encouragement to seek his intercession. We have been receiving for years reports of favors due to the intercession of Blessed Stanley Rother<\/a>, and it is one of the principal reasons that I really was behind this project. I want more people to learn about his life,\u201d Archbishop Coakley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to get not just his name out there but his reputation for holiness and heroic virtue and sanctity before the people of God,\u201d he said. \u201cI think this film will be a good way to introduce more people to his life and experience the attractiveness of this holy priest and seek his intercession.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Famously, Father Rother failed his first attempt at the seminary because he had trouble learning Latin. He got a second chance when he was accepted to Mount St. Mary\u2019s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Always the farm boy, even there, he\u2019d be known for working with his hands and tending the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Tz\u2019utujil Maya people in Santiago Atitl\u00e1n, Department of Solol\u00e1, honor the legacy of Blessed Father Stanley Rother, who served as a missionary not only in a pastoral capacity to this community but also promoted social, educational, and community development projects. (Sean Sprague\/Guatemala)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A legacy of faith and service amid Guatemala\u2019s civil war<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Father Rother was killed, Archbishop Coakley was a seminarian at Mount St. Mary\u2019s<\/a>. When students returned for classes that fall, Father Rother\u2019s parents and sister visited the seminary and placed a memorial plaque in the garden that he cared for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI found his life to be very appealing, very attractive in some powerful way, so, anything that I could find about Father Rother, I would devour,\u201d Archbishop Coakley recalled. \u201cI remember clearly when I received the phone call telling me that I was to be the next archbishop of Oklahoma City, the one thing I knew about the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City<\/a> was that\u2019s where Blessed Stanley had been from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore the announcement was made, I did a little secret pilgrimage and came to Okarche, Oklahoma, to lay my ministry here in Oklahoma before Blessed Father Stanley and ask for his intercession.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The irony of not being able to learn Latin became apparent when Father Rother learned not only Spanish but also the Tz\u2019utujil language \u2014 the primary language of the Indigenous people whom he served. While in Guatemala, he worked to translate the New Testament into Tz\u2019utujil, introduced modern farming methods and started a local radio station to help catechize and unite the villages in the area served by the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a civil war raging in Guatemala, the people would be caught in the middle of the supporters of the military government and rebels with both sides committing atrocities. In the midst of this, people from Santiago At\u00edtlan began disappearing, including parish volunteers and catechists. Father Rother wrote letters home \u2014 featured in the documentary \u2014 describing the violence and noting when priests in other parts of the country were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blessed Rother: The pastor, the farmer, the martyr<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With his name and the name of his associate, Father Pedro Bocel, on a death list, he returned briefly to Oklahoma in early 1981. In the documentary, Scaperlanda described this as his \u201cGarden of Gethsemane moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you hear the stories of the people that he went to see and who he spent time with, it\u2019s clear that they described him as weighing all the sides of this but knowing in his heart and in their own hearts that he knew where he needed to be, and he was ready to do it,\u201d Scaperlanda told OSV News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Watson, the director, is not Catholic \u2014 he attends Frontline Church in downtown Oklahoma City \u2014 Blessed Rother\u2019s story resonates beyond the Catholic world. Being from \u201cflyover country,\u201d the priest draws people in from all over Oklahoma \u2014 regardless of faith \u2014 as well as other parts of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is an attractive story, not just for Catholics and not just for Protestants but I think for a world who is looking and yearning for Jesus. Here\u2019s a man who selflessly gave up his life<\/a>, and it was used by God in such an incredible way to use his gifts and his talents as a farmer, as a priest, as just a man who could fix anything, and who had a desire to be incarnational with his parishioners,\u201d Watson said. \u201cIt\u2019s a story that draws you in, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m excited about for this film.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: Tz\u2019utujil women sing during the Mass celebrating Father Rother\u2019s beatification, recalling the priest\u2019s words, \u201cThe shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger,\u201d a statement that reflects his unwavering commitment to his people during one of Guatemala\u2019s darkest history. (Sean Sprague\/Guatemala)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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