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Three photos showing Father Casimir are side-by-side. In the first photo Father Casimir is shown eating with a smiling young man. In the second photo Father Casimir is shown in blue robes, leaning on a fence in front of a southern style rural building. In the third photo, Father Casimir is shown standing in the countryside, wearing a brimmed hat and a beaded necklace.
March 22, 2021

What Happened to Fr. Casimir Cypher?

Fr. Casimir Michael Cypher OFM, Conv., was a son, brother, Franciscan friar, COF member, missionary, and martyr whose life was not supposed to end in Honduras 46 years ago.
December 17, 2020

Ground-breaking Faith

Imagine believing in something so strongly, you sacrifice everything – including your own life – to defend it. For this Catholic Order of Foresters member, there was no imagining.
March 29, 2018

Padre Aplas

The Story of Fr. Stanley Rother In the early 1960s, Pope St. John XXIII asked churches in North America to aid the people of Central America. The Dioceses of Oklahoma City and Tulsa established a mission in Guatemala, and soon one man from Okarche, Oklahoma answered the call, finding himself in Santiago Atitlán, a poor […]