The Georgia Martyrs Beatification: A Conciliar Sect Exploits Dead Friars to Promote Its Counterfeit “Faith”
EWTN News reports that Bishop Stephen D. Parkes of the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia, is promoting the upcoming beatification of five 16th-century Spanish Franciscan missionaries known as the “Georgia Martyrs,” scheduled for October 31, 2026, to be celebrated by Cardinal Francis Leo of Toronto. Parkes described these men as “joyful witnesses” who “gave their lives for our faith in defense of the sacrament of marriage,” and called the event “the first in the South,” expressing excitement about welcoming thousands of visitors. The cause for these martyrs officially began in 1950 but gained momentum in the 1980s, and in January 2025, the antipope Francis recognized them as martyrs killed for their faith. Parkes emphasized that Catholics today must be “courageous witnesses” who “promote marriage and family life as a priority” in a world where “so much is fleeting.” This entire spectacle is yet another operation by the conciliar sect to fabricate saints for its neo-church, exploiting the memory of men who may indeed have died for the faith while simultaneously advancing the very modernist apostasy that has destroyed the true Church.




