by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 22, 2008 | Biographies, Biographies (en), Santos y beatos (en)
From the 25th July to August 1936 seven Augustinian Recollects, headed by their Superior, and a diocesan priest, gave their lives for Christ on the streets of Motril. Since the proclamation of the Republic on the 14th April 1931 they had lived on tender hooks. On 7th...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 22, 2008 | Biographies, Biographies (en), Santos y beatos (en)
On the 11th March 2001 Pope John Paul ll solemnly recognized as martyrs of Christ 233 Christians assassinated during the Spanish Civil War which tore asunder Spanish society from July 1936 to April 1939. The largest group came from Valencia and was very mixed. There...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 22, 2008 | Biographies, Biographies (en), Santos y beatos (en)
The Church commemorates these two holy bishops on the same day, 16th May. They came from the same region and lived at the same time. Both were born in the middle of the fourth century in Numidia, a Roman Province set in the now territory of Argelia. Both died there at...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 22, 2008 | Biographies, Biographies (en), Santos y beatos (en)
On the 24th April 2001 John Paul ll solemnly recognized the miraculous character of a cure that took place in Salamanca 17th December 1888 through the intercession of Blessed Alonso de Orozco. It was the instantaneous cure of Fabia Castro, a 24 year old woman who 7...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 22, 2008 | Biographies, Biographies (en), Santos y beatos (en)
The biographical landscape of St. Ezequiel is full of sick people. At times he lived by their side and always carried them in his heart. As a small boy he refused to go to the fiestas in order to stay with a sick friend. To carry on this work of service to the sick...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 22, 2008 | Biographies, Biographies (en), Santos y beatos (en)
St. Fulgentius lived in the north of Africa between the fifth and sixth centuries, at a time of social upheaval and religious persecution. The flourishing Roman society of the North of Africa was daily falling to pieces at the hands of the vandals and its ruin dragged...
