Salvador Montes de Oca, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Venezuelan catholic bishop
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Place of Birth: Carora, Lara, Venezuela
About Salvador Montes de Oca
- Salvador Montes de Oca (21 October 1895 – 10 September 1944) – in religious Bernardo – was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate and novice from the Carthusians who served as the Bishop of Valencia from 1927 until his resignation in 1934.
- Montes had limited pastoral experience before being appointed as a bishop but had served for a period as a spiritual director and after his appointment was known for upholding traditional teachings.
- But his defense of tradition on marriage and divorce led to his expulsion from Venezuela on the charge of inciting "rebellion" to which he was forced to reside at Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago from late 1929 until late 1931.
- He later resigned from his see following an attack of peritonitis and moved to Lucca to enter the Carthusians as a novice.
- He and other monks were killed after a Nazi raid who alleged the monks were harboring their enemies.The beatification process for Montes opened on 11 March 2017 in the latter's old diocese and he is now titled as a Servant of God.
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