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Silvan Carrillo was born in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. His parents were Don Juan Carrillo Zarco and Doña Librada Cárdenas Ramírez.
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He was baptized one day after he was born. He was baptized in "El Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Salud."
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When Silviano was at the age of 5, the Catholic School taught him the first letters of the alphabet.
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At the age of ten, he entered the seminary of Zamora. He started his first superior studies. In his first class he received the highest percentage of all his classmates. Then they moved to Guadalajara and there Silviano continued his studies in the Seminary. He lost his parents before they could see him become a priest.
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He was ordained to priest on December 26, 1884 and served for a short time at the Church of La Soledad and Parroquia de Jesús.
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In 1885, he was sent to Cocula, Jalisco as pastor. He built the church of San Pedro and worked enthusiastic hearing confessions, preaching, and taking care of the poor.
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On July 16, 1895, he was assigned as Pastor in Zapotlan el Grande, Jalisco. He was a great promoter of the Holy Eucharist, the Blessed Virgin Mary whom he loved very much, and St. Joseph, the parish patron saint.
During the natural disasters an earthquake (June 7, 1911) and a volcanic rain (Jan. 20, 1913), Father Silviano proved to be a true priest of Christ making present to the people the love of God. -
On July 18, 1901, a thief broke into the parish Church and stole the ciborium, a sacred vessel that contained consecrated hosts.The act served as a call from the Holy Spirit founding a religious Congregation for women, whose members will be dedicated to love and adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and make Him known and loved through Catholic education for children and youth.On November 25,1904, the Congregation of Sister Servants of the Blessed Sacrament,Siervas de Jesus Sacramentado was born.
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Father Silviano used journalist to take the Good News to all the corners of his parish. Among the outstanding newspapers he wrote were the Union Católica and La Luz de Occidente in which he defended the truths of the Catholic Church against anti-clerical laws. During the religious persecution which began in 1914, he was severely persecuted and he had to remain hiding for more than two years.
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In November 1916, he was named Canon Regular to the Cathedral of Guadalajara, Mexico. The Founder exemplified well the Eucharistic spirituality which was to be the inheritance of the Sister Servants of the Blessed Sacrament.
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His Holiness Pope Benedict XV appointed Silviano the fifth Bishop of Sinaloa. His Episcopal ordination took place on February 24,1921, in Guadalajara, Jalisco. As bishop and shepherd of Sinaloa, he began a Christian renewal centered in the Eucharist. He reopened the diocesan seminary and he gave fatherly care to the seminarians.
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Bishop Silviano’s pastoral work lasted only six months. After a brief illness which quickly and mysteriously became life threatening, God called him to participate in His eternal happiness on September 10,
1921, in Culiacan, Sinaloa (the See of his diocese). Silviano Carrillo, Bishop of Sinaloa, as faithful servant, continues praising God with his words which were the expression of his life:
“Blessed Be God”
