The history of Santa Inocencia goes back 300 years. Read on to discover its history and many things that will interest you.
It is said that Innocence was a girl who wanted to become a Catholic and her father was against it, she secretly made her first communion but her father discovered her and later murdered her.
Story and biography of Saint Innocence
The story of Saint Innocence, whose name translates as Saint Innocent, is chilling. Three hundred years ago, a young Roman girl named Innocence is said to have been expelled from the Catholic Church by her own father. He said it was “foolish to be Catholic”.
But Innocence wanted nothing more than to practice her faith. One day she befriended a nun who invited her to take lessons in Catholicism.
In the Catholic classes, the nuns taught her the whole life of Jesus, his mother the Virgin Mary, his father St Joseph, and the lives of all the apostles. they taught her the hardship of the life of the first Christians.
They told her about God the Father and his commandments, about the sacraments and the Bible, and how she should live her life from now on by knowing Jesus Christ.
Inocencia was delighted when she was invited to receive Holy Communion, and she did so without telling her father. She arrived at the cathedral wearing the white dress the nun had given her.
Later that day, Innocence returned home to tell her father the exciting news, hoping that he would support her decision.
In an act of rage, he plunged a knife into her chest and coldly murdered her. The murder of St. Innocence is considered one of the first persecutions of the Catholic faith.
Saint Innocence was originally buried in Santa Ciriaca in Rome, Italy. In 1786 her body was removed and carried by a wealthy priest to its present site in the great cathedral of Guadalajara in Mexico.
In this cathedral, the preserved remains of the girl are exhibited and tourists can pay their respects to her. They have been declared relics and symbolise the love of the Eucharist, one of the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
The body of Saint Innocence has been preserved in wax and placed behind a glass coffin. She is still dressed in her white ceremonial dress.
Here you have the story of Saint Innocence in this video:
A plaque beneath his body tells his fascinating story. Throughout human history there have been innocent people who have paid with their lives for the anger and greed of the unscrupulous.
However, it should be remembered that the massacre of the innocents by Herod in the 1st century was a calculated act, a politically motivated event, rather than a simple accident of war.
The victims were defenceless children, all under the age of two. According to the Golden Legend, the Holy Innocents, as they were called, were considered holy and innocent because of their life, the death they suffered and the innocence they achieved.
Although only briefly mentioned in the Bible, the Holy Innocents were eventually given their own feast day sometime between the late fourth and late fifth centuries.
Also known as April Fool’s Day or Childermas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents was once a day of role reversal, similar to the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, in which children were given authority over adults.
Today, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, celebrated on 28 December, is a day of jokes and general silliness, similar to April Fool’s Day in some parts of the world.
Beyond what history and the Bible say, the Holy Innocents are considered the first Christian martyrs, and as martyrs they are sometimes shown holding palm branches, a common symbol of martyrdom.
However, given the parameters of Herod’s order to kill “all children in Bethlehem and its environs who are two years old or younger”, the death toll would have been much more modest than any of these estimates.
Back in Guadalajara, Mexico, tourists still flock to see the body of Santa Inocencia, or the Girl of the Cathedral, as she is known, to pay homage to the “bride dressed for eternity”.
The short clip of the man claiming to have returned from the dead has gone viral with more than 800,000 hits on the web portal. While some viewers believe it is an eerie display of paranormal activity, others say it is all a cleverly orchestrated hoax.
St Catherine of Genoa and Bernadette, the girl to whom Our Lady of Lourdes appeared, are said to be examples, and incorruptibility is one of the two miracles required for a person to be canonised by the reigning pope.
This body of Innocence (or at least her face, since her hands appear to be decomposed) is preserved in wax, and none of the historical data indicate whether it was waxed immediately after death or after the body was exhumed and returned to Mexico.
Watch this video explaining the mystery of Santa Inocencia:
Nor does the name of Saint Innocence appear in any Catholic list. There are many St Innocents (male) and a few Pope Innocents (also male), but no saints by this name or any variation.
This is strange in a religion that keeps such detailed historical records of saints and martyrs.
“Saint” could be an honourific given to the girl in memory of her supposedly tragic religiously related death.
The Guadalajara Cathedral says the body has been certified as belonging to Inocencia, making it a relic.
As is the case with a corpse that can blink or move involuntarily due to the gases produced by the body, this phenomenon becomes mysterious to ordinary people, so when they see, for example, virgins weeping blood or tears on religious statues, it is proof that one way or another this will not stop believers from coming to observe with a video or photographic camera to capture the moment.
Stephen is said to have been full of faith and the Holy Spirit and to have performed miracles among the people. It seems that it was in the synagogues of Hellenistic Jews that he carried out his teachings and “signs and wonders”, since he is said to have aroused the opposition of the “synagogue of the Libertines” and “the Cyrenians and Alexandrians and those who were from Cilicia and Asia”.
The members of these synagogues had challenged Stephen’s teachings, but Stephen had defeated them in debate. Furious at this humiliation, they mocked the false testimony that Stephen had preached blasphemy against Moses and God.
They dragged him before the Sanhedrin, the highest court of Jewish elders, and accused him of preaching against the temple and the Mosaic Law. It is said that Stephen did not flinch, his face looked like “that of an angel”. Stephen was stoned to death in 62 AD.
Or like the young Saint Ursula, who embraced the Christian faith and did not want to be “the wife of Jesus”, she was also killed, along with 11,000 maidens who accompanied her on a pilgrimage, by Hun barbarians, because she did not want to marry or serve the chief of the barbarians, who killed her with an arrow in the heart.
Prayer to Saint Innocence
O God, I come before you on my knees. I offer you my whole life. I give you with love all that I do and say, think and feel. I give you all my hopes, dreams, wishes and desires. I give you my heart. I want to love you and be your faithful servant with all my strength, energy and talents.
Teach me all that you can, make me a good man as you are. Let me do whatever you wish, let me serve you and praise you and do the works of your good will.
Fill me with Your love until my breast is full of it. Show me how to be humble, for only You can teach me how to begin to do Your works of good will.
Show me how not to think only of myself, not to be proud and arrogant. Do not let me want to be the centre of the world or of what surrounds me, do not let me lose my innocence.
Give me the courage to want to do good through me, as Your Son Jesus Christ did on His way through this hard and cruel world. I know that without you I can become nothing. I want your holy will to be done through me.
Let me only desire to do what you want, let me entrust myself to you and offer my life only to serve and adore you for the rest of the days I have left to live. Into your hands I commend myself, under your care and holy protection. Amen.
We leave you with the Holy Innocents Prayer, which you can pray at any time to protect children and babies:
Legend of Saint Innocence
According to legend, when she was a young Roman girl, Saint Innocence’s father forbade her to practice Catholicism. In an act of defiance, the girl befriended a nun and joined the Catholic Church.
She took Holy Communion, or the sacrament of the Eucharist, which represents Christ’s act of love in giving his blood and body for the forgiveness of our sins, and returned home, only to be stabbed to death by her own father in a fit of rage.
The horrific murder was considered one of the first persecutions of the Catholic faith. In turn, Saint Innocence became a martyr. The remains of Saint Innocence were transferred to the Cathedral of Guadalajara in Mexico and declared a relic.
She is dressed in a white ceremonial dress and her body has been preserved in wax and placed in a glass case. Recently, a tourist standing in front of the body made a chilling video, capturing the moment when the saint surprisingly opens her eyes.
In this video you can see Santa Inocencia when she opens her eyes in a surprising way:
As a mysterious centuries-old mummified girl, she is now one of the most remarkable people in the historic centre of Guadalajara, Mexico.
She is housed in the Cathedral of Guadalajara or the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The church itself is a major landmark and tourist attraction, with elegant neo-Gothic bell towers dating from 1854 atop a 17th-century Spanish Renaissance-style building (several earthquakes over the years have necessitated changes and rebuilding to some parts of the cathedral).
The true story of how Santa Inocencia came to be publicly laid to rest in Guadalajara Cathedral is controversial.
According to legend, the girl was stabbed to death in Mexico in the 18th century by her father, who disapproved of her interest in Catholicism and became enraged when she received the Eucharist without his permission.
After the father disappeared, neighbours found the girl’s body and took it to the cathedral, still in the white dress she had worn to the service, where it remains to this day.
Another story, told on the small plaque in the cathedral, is that the remains of the girl were taken from a Roman cemetery in 1786 and sent to Don Vicente Flores Alatorre in 1788.
He was a dignitary of the Catholic Church who taught theology at the Cathedral of Guadalajara. Flores gave the remains of the child Santa Inocencia to the convent of the Augustinian nuns of Santa Monica (Santa Monica was the mother of St Augustine) in Guadalajara.
After the convent was closed, the diocesan seminary began using the facilities in 1869, and members of the seminary found the girl’s remains in the chapel.
The seminary was evicted and moved to the temple of San Sebastián de Analco in 1915, taking Santa Inocencia with it. In 1924, when the seminarians were also evicted from this site, Archbishop D. Francisco Orozco y Jiménez decided to move the body to the Cathedral of Guadalajara.
Santa Inocencia moved to its present location in the cathedral in 1925. Additional information from this story – although not in public signage – is that the girl was tortured and killed by Roman legionaries as Christianity began to spread in Europe.
Or that her father killed her in Rome after she converted to Christianity, after her body was placed in the Roman catacombs before her long journey to Guadalajara.
Today, Saint Innocence rests like a doll in a white dress in a glass case. Some devout Catholics visit her to pray and ask for miracles.
Santa Inocencia became even more famous around the world when, in 2012, a visitor posted a video on YouTube purporting to show the girl opening her eyes.
While it is likely that the video was manipulated for dramatic effect, the full truth about Santa Inocencia’s short life, sudden death and legendary presence in Guadalajara Cathedral will probably never be known.
In this video you have the information about the legend of the Girl of the Cathedral or Santa Inocencia:
The girl of innocence
The story of the Holy Innocent Girl was written many years ago, and the popular saying goes that many years ago a girl called Innocence listened attentively to her schoolmates talking about her First Communion.
For her it was something magical, the most important moment of her life, to take communion and receive the body of Christ. She went home with great joy and asked her father for permission, but he was very reluctant.
One day, the nun who was giving catechism classes was surprised to hear someone praying and singing outside. She was surprised to see Innocence on her knees, praying.
She accepted and later the day of the Eucharist came for her and the other children who were waiting for this great moment with their white clothes and candles. It was the nun who gave her the dress.
Finally, Innocence knew what it was like to receive the Body of Christ. Excited, she went to her house to talk to her father; not finding him in the living room, she went to the kitchen.
Innocence told him the good news, but without seeing his face, he turned and stabbed her in the chest with a large knife, killing her. The father fled and was never found, only the uproar of the neighbours when they knew what had happened.
The same neighbours took her to the church, where her body lies in eternal rest, as if asleep.
It is believed that if “marriageable women” come and read their prayers before the “Holy Innocent”, they will soon meet and marry the love of their life, something like what happened to San Antonio de Padua, who was placed on his head to find him a boyfriend.
Watch this video where, according to the popular version, it is proved that the Holy Innocence grants miracles by opening her eyes:
A rational explanation for the case of Santa Inocencia
According to several researchers, the skeleton of this girl is, with greater certainty, a body that must have been taken from one of the catacombs of Santa Ciriaca in Rome, since the analyses carried out give results that, by their chemical composition, correspond to this area.
Perhaps someone had the idea to dress her in a white dress, like a first communion or bridal gown, and through the imagination of the people, they began to think that she was a martyr.
Although the body looks realistic, even if it does not blink, it is not one of the famous “incorruptible” saints of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, who avoid decomposition without any preservation.
Furthermore, it has been proven that this body is neither incorruptible nor does it have an embalming process as we know it today.
Watch this video to see how the incorruptibility of the body of Saint Innocence is explained:
Looking at this body, it is clear that it is not covered in wax, but appears to be covered in plaster.
The locals say that she must also have her hair and nails cut regularly, but it is clear that the hair is a wig that has been put on, and the hands are in such a state of decay that no nails can be seen.
The glass case also contains a substance that appears to be blood, but it is not known whether it came with the body or was deliberately placed there.
In the city of Rimini there is the body of a martyr, also called Saint Innocence, who has been venerated for many centuries and has his own legend.
Another Saint Innocence is found in the city of Ravenna, Italy.
According to Cardinal Robles of Guadalajara, this saint is beatified and is known for her miracles, and the fact that she opened her eyes is just one of many miracles.
The Catholic Church, among others, has traditionally regarded the process of incorruptibility of certain persons, especially saints and the blessed, as a miraculous sign of their holiness.
Incorruptible bodies and holy innocence
There are many so-called incorruptible bodies venerated in Catholic sanctuaries. The idea of the incorruptible body generally implies that these bodies remain more or less as they were at the time of death.
The bodies on display are usually covered with layers of wax to emphasise the idea of incorruptibility.
To learn more about the process of making the bodies incorruptible, watch this video:
This is the case of the body of the martyr known as Santa Inocencia, which is kept in the Cathedral of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, and is open to the public.
It is also known that in order to fulfil the supposed miracles, letters and offerings left by people waiting for the little martyr can be seen in the display case.
Watch this video about the miraculous saint of Santa Inocencia:
However, if this is true and can be called a paranormal phenomenon, the story of Saint Innocence is still alive.
And according to what Cardinal Robles said, not only to the faithful but also to the press, this saint works many miracles and the opening of her eyes was just one of the many that she has done.
However, as is always the case with this type of phenomenon that goes viral on the Internet, and as a result of the circulation of the video in which she appears to open her eyes, the controversy begins between those who believe it is true and those who think it is a fraud.
In addition, there are many mystical, spiritual, religious, fearful and even dark or demonic forces that people tend to believe in.
Truth or lies is not known, everything is up to the people who want to believe in it or not, in this last video we show a radio programme where the case of this saint is treated as a fraud:
