María Encarnación Rosal
María Encarnación Rosal (German: Maria of the Incarnation of the Heart of Jesus ; Alternative names in Spanish are: María Encarnación del Corazón de Jesús, Maria de la Encarnación Rosal, María Encarnación Rosal del Corazón de Jesús, Maria de la Encarnación del Corazón de Jesus) (* October 26th as María Vicenta Rosal Vásquez 1820 in Quetzaltenango , Guatemala ; † August 24th, 1886 in Tulcán , Ecuador ) was a Guatemalan religious sister , mystic and missionary and was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1997 .
Life
María Vicenta Rosal Vásquez entered the community of the Bethlehemita Order (Spanish: Orden Bethlemita) at the age of 15 , which was founded in Guatemala by Saint Peter of Betancurt . The order had a male and a female branch. In Guatemala, they ran the Our Lady of Bethlehem Hospital , a school for the poor, a home for the homeless, a hostel for priests and an oratory . The individual communities named themselves Bethlehem after the birthplace of Jesus Christ (Spanish: Belén) . María was dressed by the last priest of the Bethlehem Brothers . After a short time she converted to the Catherine's Sisters, but soon returned, was elected prioress and tried to reform the community according to the constitutions. Failing to do this, she moved back to her hometown of Quetzaltenango and founded a Bethlehem there . In addition to an active life , the community also devoted itself to contemplation , devoting the 25th day of each month to Eucharistic adoration in atonement for the sufferings of the Heart of Jesus .
In 1855 Sr. Maria Vincenta founded two schools in Quetzaltenango. After a vision of the Heart of Jesus on Maundy Thursday of 1857, she had a picture of the Heart of Jesus painted and from then on promoted devotion to the sufferings of the Heart of Jesus . When the Catholic religious orders threatened to be expelled during the presidency of Miguel García Granados Zavala , they received an invitation from President Gabriel García Moreno to come to Ecuador, which in the end was not necessary. Because of the church persecution of President Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón , she had to leave Guatemala in 1877 and went to Costa Rica . There she founded a school in Cartago and an orphanage. When a secular government came to power, they had to flee again and went to Colombia in 1884 , where they founded homes for neglected girls. She also set up branches in the northern Ecuadorian cities of Tulcán and Otavalo . Sr. Maria Vincenta died after falling from her horse on August 24, 1886. She was buried in the Bethlehem of Pasto . Your body is not decomposed.
Maria de la Encarnación Rosal was beatified by Pope John Paul II on May 4, 1997 . Her feast day in the liturgy is August 24th. She was the first Blessed Guatemala. The 150th anniversary of the apparitions of 1857 was celebrated with a procession in Pasto.
Due to her reform of the Bethlemita order, she is considered the founder of the order .
Web links
- Homily of Pope John Paul II at the Beatification
- Biography in the Santopedia in Spanish
- Biography in French
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| SURNAME | María Encarnación Rosal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mary of the Incarnation of the Heart of Jesus; Maria de la Encarnación Rosal, María Encarnación del Corazón de Jesús; María Encarnación Rosal del Corazón de Jesús; María Vicenta Rosal Vásquez; Maria de la Encarnacion del Corazón de Jesus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sister of the Bethlemita order, founder of the order |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quetzaltenango , Guatemala |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1886 |
| Place of death | Tulcan , Ecuador |