Bernardo de Hoyos

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Bust in the Santuario Nacional de la Gran Promesa .

Bernardo Francisco de Hoyos y de Seña SJ (born August 21, 1711 in Torrelobatón , Valladolid , Spain , † November 29, 1735 in Valladolid) was a Spanish Catholic priest . He is considered the first and most important apostle of the Sacred Heart in Spain in the spirit of the apparitions of Margareta Maria Alacoque in Paray-le-Monial and was beatified by the Catholic Church in 2010 .

Life

Santuario Nacional de la Gran Promesa . It was here that Bernardo de Hoyos had his mystical experiences.

Bernardo de Hoyos entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Villagarcía de Campos at the age of 14 , finished it just before he was 17 and made simple perpetual vows . He then studied philosophy and later theology in Valladolid. Here he learned about the devotion to the Sacred Heart and had his mystical experiences in the church of the Jesuit school in this city (San Ambrosio) . These were about the spread of the devotion to the Sacred Heart and the rule of the Divine Heart in Spain combined with the promises of mercy. De Hoyos was strongly influenced in Valladolid by reading Joseph de Gallifet's main work De Cultu Sacrosanti Cordis Jesu .

On January 2, 1735 he was ordained a priest . A few months later he died of typhus . After his death, the Jesuit Church of Valladolid became a shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and was renamed Santuario Nacional de la Gran Promesa (German: National Shrine of the Great Promise ).

On January 12, 1996, Pope John Paul II established the heroic virtue of Bernardo de Hoyos. On January 16, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI approved . the beatification that took place in Valladolid on April 18, 2010, chaired by Archbishop Angelo Amato , Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints .

Works

  • The hidden treasure of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 1734.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoyos, Bernardo de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoyos y de Seña, Bernardo Francisco de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Torrelobatón
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1735
Place of death Valladolid