The rite of beatification was presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, by mandate of Pope Benedict XVI.
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Palafox also raised twelve companies of militia to protect the colony against the spread of revolution from Portugal and Catalonia.
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600 – 1659), a Spanish bishop, politician and writer in colonial Mexico
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Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, then Archbishop of Puebla, made a visit to the shrine in 1644, although he does not mention a statue.