San Ernesto, Che Guevara as a saint

He was part Irish. He loved rugby, chess and poetry. He had 5 children. Che Guevara was a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution who went on to become a guerrilla leader in South America. Executed by the Bolivian army in 1967, he has since been regarded as a martyred hero by generations of leftists worldwide.

One of the most interesting Che Guevara facts is that he became a saint for some. Local people in Vallegrande, a small, colonial town in Bolivia, consider Che Guevara a saint. His corpse is at the Señor de Malta Hospital in Vallegrande. It was on a stretcher for the press to see on October 9, 1967. Thus, the townspeople established him as a saint. They even prayed to him for protection.