João Pereira Venâncio

João Pereira Venâncio (left of Pope Paul VI) at a mass in Portugal, around 1984

João III. Pereira Venâncio ORC (born February 8, 1904 in Monte Redondo , Portugal ; † August 2, 1985 ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Leiria (since 1984 diocese of Leiria-Fátima ). He supported various inner-Catholic private revelations.

Life

Childhood and youth

João Pereira Venâncio in 1904 in the village of Monte Redondo in the Portuguese district of Leiria (now in Leiria District , sub-region Pinhal Litoral the region of Central Portugal born located).

Clergyman in Leiria

Leiria Cathedral, the official seat of Venâncio from 1954–1972

Venâncio received on 21 December 1929 by José II. Alves Correia da Silva , Bishop of Leiria in the Portuguese city of Leiria , the ordination . On September 30, 1954, the episcopal ordination and the appointment as auxiliary bishop in Leiria and titular bishop of Euroea in Epiro by Pope John XXIII followed. On September 13, 1958, John XXIII appointed him. to the diocesan bishop of Leiria, the diocese in which the pilgrimage site of Fátima is located.

Pope Paul VI accepted Venâncio's resignation on July 1, 1972. His successor as Bishop of Leiria was Alberto Cosme do Amaral .

Use for private revelations

Venâncio was active beyond his bishopric in connection with various private revelations and supported them. His commitment to the angel work, the private revelations of Garabandal and - also in his capacity as bishop - the ecclesiastically recognized private revelation of Fátima is known.

Fatima

On March 1, 1954, he presented the “ Third Secret of Fátima ” written by Lúcia dos Santos to the Apostolic Nunciature in Lisbon . In 1962 Venâncio founded the theological college Colégio de São Miguel in Fátima.

Garabandal

Venâncio was a staunch supporter of the ecclesiastically unrecognized private revelation of San Sebastián de Garabandal , where apparitions of the Virgin Mary and wonders of the host are said to have taken place from 1961 to 1965 , and was personally friends with the alleged seer Conchita since 1967 . He twice visited at her home in Lindenhurst in the US state of New York .

Engelwerk

In 1979 Venâncio became one of the first members of the re-established Canons Regular of the Holy Cross ( Cross Order for short ), an Augustinian religious order founded in Coimbra in 1131 and extinct in 1903 . This was rebuilt since the mid- 1970s as an order within the Engelwerk founded by the alleged mystic Gabriele Bitterlich . In the same year he made his solemn profession and in 1980 was appointed superior by Pope John Paul II . In June 1984 he resigned from his position.

Death and burial

João Pereira Venâncio died on August 2, 1985 and was buried in the public cemetery of his birthplace, Monte Redondo.

literature

• Augusto Ascenso Pascoal: Servir em tempos de mudança. Edição do Santuário de Fátima, Fátima 2010, ISBN 978-972-8213-76-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Entry on João Pereira Venâncio on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 18, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Eman Bonnici: João Pereira Venâncio , Find a Grave , December 9, 2010 (English)
3. ↑ Mensagem de Garabandal: Bispo de Fátima João Pereira Venâncio e Garabandal ( Memento of August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
4. ↑ Order of Canon Regulars of the Holy Cross: The History of the Order of the Cross ( Memento from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
José II. Alves Correia da Silva	Bishop of Leiria 1958–1972	Alberto Cosme do Amaral