Alonso Messia Bedoya

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Alonso Messia Bedoya SJ , also Alphonsus Messia or Mesia (born January 10, 1655 in Pacaraos , Peru , † January 5, 1732 in Lima ) was a Peruvian Jesuit and theologian .

Life

Bedoya was born the son of General Francisco Messia y Ramón and Francisca Bedoya y Campusano in Pacaraos in the province of Huaral . He studied at the Colegio Real de San Martín and at the Colegio Máximo de San Pablo in Lima and after his ordination became professor of theology at the Universidad de San Marcos (also in Lima).

He later taught at the Jesuit school in Cuzco , where he himself learned Quechua and other indigenous languages. Here he gained a reputation as a good preacher and theologian and on his return to Lima was appointed rector of the Colegio del Príncipe in the Indian missionary settlement in Cercado as well as Calificador del Tribunal del Santo Oficio ('Judge of the Holy Inquisition').

In 1705 Bedoya's previous appointment as Provincial of Quito was annulled and he took over the post of Prior of the casa profesa de Nuestra Señora de Desamparados en Lima . In 1708 he founded the monastery of San Rosa de Lima . Between 1711 and 1714 he was Provincial of Perú and founded the Jesuit School of Moquegua . In addition, he established two chairs at the Universidad de San Marcos and was the confessor of Viceroy José de Armendáriz .

Alonso Messia Bedoya is considered to be venerable (the first stage in the beatification process ).

Its greatest aftereffect was a brochure in which he presented a three-hour form of devotion on Good Friday , the Devoción de las tres horas de la agonía de Cristo Nuestro Señor , devotion to the three hours of our Lord Christ's agony . It comprised the lecture of the seven last words of Jesus on the cross, each with reflections, songs and prayers in the three hours from 12 noon to 3 pm, the traditional hour of Jesus' death on Good Friday. The prayer quickly gained great popularity and spread to Europe via Spain. Joseph Haydn created The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross for such a devotion in Cadiz . In Italy, where Pope Pius VI. Permitted its use in 1789, it was called Tre ore di agonia . In the 19th and first half of the 20th century, this form of devotion as a three-hour service was popular in Protestant denominations, especially in English-speaking countries.

Works

  • Oración fúnebre a las real exequias del Rey NS Don Luis I . 1725
  • Rosario de alabanza or gozo de Jesucristo .
  • Devoción de las tres horas de la agonía de Cristo Nuestro Señor y método con que se practicaba en el Colegio Máximo de San Pablo de la Compañía de Jesús de Lima y en toda la provincia del Perú .
Engl. Edition: The Devotion Of The Three Hours Agony On Good Friday , with an introduction by Herbert Thurston (1899) Digitized in the Internet Archive

literature

  • Alberto Tauro del Pino: Enciclopedia Ilustrada del Perú . Peisa, Lima 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Three-hours service , in: JG Davies (Ed.): A Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. London: SCM Press 1972, pp. 355f, and James Monti: The week of salvation: history and traditions of Holy Week. Huntington, Ind .: Our Sunday Visitor 1993 ISBN 0879735325 , pp. 205ff
personal data
SURNAME Messia Bedoya, Alonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Pacaraos , Perú
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1732
Place of death Lima