List of Central American and Caribbean saints
This page is a list of Central American and Caribbean saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of North America excluding Mexico, Canada and the United States. The first unquestioned presence of the Catholic Church in the Americas was in this region, when Christopher Columbus first set foot on San Salvador. The oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the New World, the Cruz de la Parra, is kept in what is now  Cuba. List of saints. The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated. As a fact, of the list only St. Óscar Romero is the only native saint of Central America and the Caribbean. The rest were Spanish missionaries who carried out their apostolic work in these American countries. Other open causes. Others have been proposed for beatification, and may have active groups supporting their causes. These include: