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Caguas
Formally established in 1775 near the site of a far older Taíno village, the thriving community of CAGUAS is the fastest growing metropolitan area in Puerto Rico and currently its fifth largest city. The historic core is a compact, attractive area easily explored on foot, surrounded by a great swathe of suburbs and strip malls. Parking is easy and it’s only 29km and 25 minutes’ drive from San Juan, making the city a tempting day-trip or first stop on the routes south or east. It’s also one of the few places served by regular públicos, so you won’t need a car to get here.
At the centre of Caguas is the tree-filled Plaza Palmer, one of the largest squares on the island and more like an elegant Mexican parque than the cramped plazas of Old San Juan. The flower clock at the eastern end was added in 1966 and lined with the faces of the twelve most illustrious cagüeños, including José Gautier Benítez (1848–1880), Puerto Rico’s finest Romantic poet.
Opposite is the twin-towered Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús, most of the structure dating from the 1930s and not especially interesting, though it does contain the tomb of Carlos Manuel “Charlie” Rodríguez, the first Puerto Rican to be beatified. On the other side of the plaza, the Casa Alcadía (town hall) was bu
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Reflection: Carlos Manuel Rodríguez–Puerto Rico's Black blessed?
On the topic of the first Black Catholic saint in the United States, the discourse has often been fraught for one major reason: there isn’t one. Or so it is said.
It is certain that there are no officially recognized African-American saints in the Catholic Church. Moreover, none of the six US Black Catholics currently under consideration for sainthood have even been beatified, which requires a Vatican-approved miracle and is the last step before canonization.
That said, there is one beatified American who is not well-known in the United States, even though he lived in the country (and was a citizen) for his entire life and performed a verified miracle more than 40 years ago. Moreover, there is good reason to believe he was of African descent.
Meet Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as “Blessed Charlie,” the first and only beatified Puerto Rican in history, and the second beatified layperson in the entire Western Hemisphere. The Church (outside of Puerto Rico) celebrates his feast today.
Rodríguez was born in 1918 in Caguas, a small rural city just south of San Juan in east-central Puerto Rico. Founded on the backs of slaves, sugar plantations dominated the local economy during the er
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