The Little Flower Church, a Catholic mainstay that has served generations of Oklahoma City’s Hispanic population, was founded by three Spanish Carmelite priests fleeing an irate Pancho Villa in 1914.

The Mexican revolutionary had threatened to execute the priests at their mission in Torreon, Mexico, but a U.S. diplomat's wife intervened and their lives were spared with the understanding that they would be exiled to the U.S.

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