by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 22, 2008 | Biographies, Biographies (en), Santos y beatos (en)
St. Thomas lived in Spain, in the first half of the sixteenth century. It was a society in ferment seeking new ways in theological discourse, in the religious life, in piety and devotion, in the apostolate… Everywhere there were shouts raised against the...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 11, 2008 | Santos y beatos (en)
The reputation of holiness of Bishop Gallegos, his exemplary virtues, the memory of his love for the people of God is very much alive in the hearts of the Augustinian Recollects and those Catholics in Sacramento, especially the Hispanics, who found in him a faithful...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 11, 2008 | Santos y beatos (en)
Mother Mariana was certainly a great ascetic. Her deep desires for perfection led her to mortify her appetites and chose an austere life, long hours of prayer, mortification in eating and sleeping and in discipline. God grated her gifts and mystical graces, raptures,...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 11, 2008 | Santos y beatos (en)
Mother Isabel puts flesh on the type of religious woman of high spirituality, living only for God, a true characteristic of the religiosity of Spain in the seventeenth century. She represents the individual spirit of reaching beyond what is laid down in the norms of...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 11, 2008 | Santos y beatos (en)
Mother Antonia enjoyed a reputation for holiness in her lifetime and after her death it wasn’t the propaganda but her virtues that made this reputation grow. When her body was exhumed in 1827 and found to be incorrupt and incorrupt again fifty years later this...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Mar 11, 2008 | Santos y beatos (en)
The reputation of holiness of these women continued to grow and many other young women asked to join the convent. Soon the group reached six. And others waited to be admitted. Document published: 2008. Ver documento PDF Autor: OARSPAIN
