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The Mexican Martyrs Relics will be displayed at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in West Jordan.

The relics, bone chips of six priests killed during the Cristeros War in Mexico in the 1920s, are embedded in an ornate cross, the focus of the display.

The relics are typically housed in Guadalajara, Mexico, and rarely are transported for viewing elsewhere.

WEST JORDAN — Representatives of the Utah Knights of Columbus have tried for 20 years to arrange a viewing of the relics of six Catholic priests killed during Mexico's Cristeros War, a crackdown by the Mexican government on religion in the 1920s.

"They very, very rarely come out. You've got to get approval from the Vatican," said Frank Carmona, state deputy of the Catholic fraternal service organization .

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