Francisco Palau y Quer
Francisco Palau y Quer (born December 29, 1811 in Aitona , Lleida , † March 20, 1872 in Tarragona ) was a Spanish Carmelite and priest who was beatified by the Catholic Church .
Life
Francisco Palau y Quer entered the Lérida seminary at the age of 17 . After three years of philosophy and one year of theology studies, he left the seminary to enter the Discalced Carmelites in the Teresian Carmel of Barcelona as a novice in 1832 . On November 14, 1832, he took the religious name Francisco de Jesús, María, y José for clothing . Due to the church persecution during the First Carlist War , he could no longer lead a monastery life. He was ordained a priest on April 2, 1836 . After the Carlist War he moved to France, where he stayed for eleven years. There he began his writing activity. Back in Spain, he became a Spiritualist in the Barcelona Seminary.
In 1851, with the help of the Archbishop of Barcelona, José Domingo Costa y Borrás, he founded the Escuela de la virtud (English: School of Virtue ), an adult catechesis . In 1854 Francisco Palau y Quer was banished by the liberal government of the “ Progressive Biennium ” and the catechism school was closed.
He lived almost isolated in the Balearic Islands for six years and devoted himself - also as a writer - to mysticism. In 1860 he returned to the mainland and devoted himself to popular missions in major Spanish cities such as Madrid, Barcelona and others.
He was entrusted with the care of the third order by his prior general . In 1861 in the Balearic Islands he founded a female and a male congregation of Carmelite Tertiary groups, the Hermanas Carmelitas Terciarias and the Hermanos Carmelitas Terciarios , also known as Carmelo Missionario (English: Missionary Carmel) for the popular mission . Juana Gratias Fabre (1824–1903) from Gramat (Occitania) supported him in founding the women's community .
In 1868 he founded the magazine El Ermitaño (Eng .: The Hermit), whose editorial office he was now in charge of. During the First Vatican Council he stayed in Rome to keep in touch with the Council Fathers and to write reports for his magazine.
Francisco Palau y Quer died in Tarragona during a missionary trip.
The Carmelitas Misioneras Teresianas and the Carmelitas Misioneras
After his death, the female congregation divided into the Carmelitas Misioneras Teresianas (canonically recognized in 1880) and into a community founded by Juana Gratias Fabre, the Terciarias Carmelitas Descalzas (canonically recognized in 1878). The latter received papal permission at the beginning of the 20th century to also work in the mission in Latin America and therefore changed its name to Carmelitas Misioneras (CT) in 1917 .
beatification
Francisco Palau y Quer was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24, 1988 . His feast day in the liturgy is November 7th .
literature
- José Martínez Puche OP (Ed.): Nuevo Año Cristiano . Volume 9. (November). EDIBESA, Madrid 2001, ISBN 84-8407-210-X , pp. 142-148.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Luis Suárez Fernández and others (eds.): Historia general de España y América , Vol. 16: Revolución y restauración . Rialp, Madrid 1981, Part 1, ISBN 84-321-2113-4 , p. 567.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palau y Quer, Francisco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish clergyman, Discalced Carmelite |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aitona , Lleida Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1872 |
| Place of death | Tarragona |