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{{Saints
|SaintName=Blessed Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos
|SaintStage=Blessed
|FeastDay=July 13
|SaintBirthPlace=Yarumal, Antioquia Department, Colombia
|SaintBirthCoordinates=6.805000, -75.583300
|DeathPlace=Angostura, Antioquia Department, Colombia
|SaintDeathCoordinates=6.666700, -75.500000
|SaintCauseOfDeath=natural causes
|NotableAddress1=Seminary of Medellín, Carrera 50 #50-50, Medellín, Antioquia Department, Colombia
|NotableLabel1=Site of priestly formation
|NotableCoordinates1=6.251800, -75.563600
|NotableAddress2=Parish Church of Santa Rosa de Osos, Carrera 14 #21-50, Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia Department, Colombia
|NotableLabel2=First parish assignment
|NotableCoordinates2=6.556100, -75.459700
|NotableAddress3=Parish Church of Angostura, Calle 5 #4-20, Angostura, Antioquia Department, Colombia
|NotableLabel3=Primary site of ministry and burial
|NotableCoordinates3=6.666700, -75.500000
|AssociatedCountries=Colombia
|AssociatedDioceses=[[Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos]]
|BeatificationDate=2000-09-04
|Beatifier=Pope John Paul II
|BeatificationLocation=St. Peter's Square, Vatican City
|Canonized=No
|SaintMiracle1=Healing of Fr. Rafael Gildardo Vélez Saldarriaga from cancer
|Profession=priest
|ReligiousAffiliation=Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos
|Patronage=Colombian clergy; the poor
|Attributes=priest with peasants
|PrimaryShrine=Parish Church of Angostura, Calle 5 #4-20, Angostura, Antioquia Department, Colombia
|ReviewLevel=0
}}
'''Blessed Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos''', known affectionately as '''Padre Marianito''' (14 October 1845 – 13 July 1926), was a Colombian diocesan priest whose 54-year ministry exemplified selfless service to the rural poor, earning him the title "Priest of the Poor."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_de_Jes%C3%BAs_Euse_Hoyos |title=Mariano de Jesús Euse Hoyos |publisher=Wikipedia |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> Born the eldest of seven children to Pedro Euse and Rosalía de Hoyos Echeverri in Yarumal, Antioquia, he discerned a vocation from age 16, entering Medellín's seminary at 24 and being ordained on 14 July 1872 for the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, as recorded in diocesan ordinations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=7465 |title=Bl. Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos |publisher=Catholic Online |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> Serving in remote parishes like Santa Rosa de Osos (1872–1881), Tuta (1881–1887), and Angostura (1887–1926), he traversed mountains on foot and mule to administer sacraments, catechize peasants, and advocate for the marginalized amid Colombia's anticlerical violence and civil wars, per parish chronicles and eyewitness testimonies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://anastpaul.com/2020/07/13/saint-of-the-day-13-july-blessed-mariano-de-jesus-euse-hoyos-1845-1926-priest/ |title=Saint of the Day – 13 July – Blessed Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos |publisher=Anastpaul |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> His humility shone in daily Mass, confessions lasting hours, and founding schools for indigenous children, reflecting a lived Gospel amid 19th-century rural hardships.

Beatified on 9 April 2000 by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square—the first Colombian priest so honored—following the 1999 decree recognizing a miracle through his intercession, Mariano's cause opened on 10 October 1980 and declared him Venerable on 3 March 1990 for heroic virtue.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/decrees-promulgated-for-servants-of-god-2027 |title=DECREES PROMULGATED FOR SERVANTS OF GOD |publisher=EWTN |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> His feast on 13 July marks his death, observed in the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos with processions and almsgiving. While hagiographic traditions recount bilocations to aid the dying and incorrupt remains upon 1926 exhumation—elements from devotional accounts without scientific verification—his verified legacy endures in rural apostolate, inspiring Colombian clergy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gaudiumpress.ca/meet-blessed-mariano-colombian-priest-miracle-worker/ |title=Meet Blessed Mariano: Colombian Priest, Miracle Worker |publisher=Gaudium Press |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> As patron of the poor and Colombian priests, Mariano embodies pastoral zeal in forgotten peripheries.