by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The Constitutions of Regensburg of the year 1290 prescribed the commemoration of deceased benefactors, in order to remember before the Lord those who in various ways had helped the Order in its charitable works, and activities. Until 1672 the commemoration was joined...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Gonzalo was born around the middle of the 14th century in Lagos in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. He joined the Augustinians in Lisbon in 1380 and served in various Portugese houses as preacher, prior and also as a skilled copier of liturgical books. His...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Though forever associated with St Rita and her shrine in Cascia, Marietta Fasce was born near Genoa in 1881. She was involved in an Augustinian parish in the city and shared the excitement at the canonization of St Rita in 1900. Attracted by the story of Rita,...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Murillo, one of Spain’s greatest painters, has left us a valuable portrait of Thomas of Villanova. Not a portrait of a magnificent 16th century Lord Bishop of one of the richest dioceses in Spain during the country’s golden age. But a picture of a bishop...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Marco Elias Nieves del Castillo was born into a poor but devout peasant family on 21st September 1882 in Yuriria, Guanajuato province, Mexico. A sickly child, baptised in danger of death, he grew up in poor health and difficult family circumstances. When 12 he nearly...
