SMU alum declared Servant of God

Brother James Miller, martyred in Guatemala in 1982, has recently been declared a “Servant of God,” the first step in the process toward beatification. In recent meetings in Guatemala and the United States, Brother Rodolfo Meoli, Postulator General, received a letter from the Bishop of Guatemala that introduced to the Vatican the cause of Brother James.

Brother James is a 1966 Saint Mary’s graduate who did mission work in Nicaragua and Guatemala. It was in the latter country — while doing God’s work of bringing education, faith and hope to marginalized people — that he was shot and killed on Feb. 13, 1982.