His Excellency, Most Rev. Hector Francisco de la Cruz, Ripoll, OSF passed away. For over 20 years he had visited the Chapel and provided the Sacrament of Confirmation and pastoral guidance as Catholic bishop.

Msgr. Ripoll resided in Yucatan, Mexico. Msgr. Ripoll was among the Catholic bishops who resisted modernism in the Church and continued to offer the Traditional Latin Mass and administered the Sacraments in accord with the traditional Rites of the Roman Catholic Church. His episcopate stemmed from Archbishop Thuc of Vietnam.  Archbishop Thuc was one of the few prelates of the Roman Catholic Church who remained faithful to the traditional Latin Mass.  Msgr. Ripoll had entered the Franciscan Order in 1962.  He remained a faithful son of St. Francis until the end.  May his soul, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God rest in peace.