Olancho: Entre si quiere, salga si puede. [Enter if you want; Exit if you can.]
Juticalpa (Spanish pronunciation: [xutiˈkalpa]) is the capital of Olancho Department in Honduras, with a population of 69,850 (2020 calculation), and the municipal seat of Juticalpa Municipality.
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, has ~1.2 million people.
Today, people all over Honduras honor Fr. Casimir in the Cathedral of Gualaco in Olancho.
Fr. Casimir’s call to do missionary work was given to him when his religious community sent him to San Esteban, a very small mountain village, in Honduras. This tiny village was 40 miles from the small town of Gualaco, which in itself is 5 hours from Juticalapa, Honduras where Fr. Casimir (Michael) Cypher was martyred.
Buried in Church of St. Jerome, Municipality of Gualaco, Olancho, Honduras.
later exhumed and interred at Iglesia Católica, San Esteban, Olancho, Honduras.[uncertain]
There is an accurate saying about Olancho known by all residents of the region that has become the unofficial motto: “Olancho es ancho para entrar, y angosto para salir.” This is variously translated as “Olancho is easy to enter, and hard to leave”, or more literally: “Olancho is wide to enter, and narrow to leave”. True understanding of, and appreciation for, this motto takes years to develop. It has also been said to be because of the historical violence of the department. There is another saying, “Olancho: Entre si quiere, salga si puede” (literally, “Olancho: Enter if you want, exit if you can”).