Career
As a young man, Pedro Marieluz Garcés entered the order of the Camillians and was ordained a priest in 1805. Later he became a military chaplain with the troops of the Spanish Royal Governor, Ramón Rodil. During the siege of the fortress Real Felipe in the city of Callao after the Battle of Ayacucho there was a conspiracy made against Rodil by some of the Royal soldiers.
The plot was discovered and Rodil sentenced the conspirators to death.
They were allowed to confess to Father Marieluz before being shot. But Father Marieluz remained steadfast and thus died a martyr in the evening of 23 September 1825.
