Enrique de Ossó i Cervelló, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEnrique de Ossó i Cervelló
Spanish writer
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Place of Birth: Vinebre, Catalonia, Spain
About Enrique de Ossó i Cervelló
- Saint Enrique de Ossó i Cervelló (16 October 1840 - 27 January 1896) was a Spanish Catholic priest and the founder of the Society of Saint Teresa of Jesus.
- He served the role of a parish priest as an educator and an able catechist and published several works on catechesis to that effect while also expressing a keen interest in the value of women and in Saint Teresa of Ávila to whom he dedicated his congregation to.The beatification process for the late priest commenced in 1965 - he was titled as a Servant of God from that point on - and he was later named to be Venerable under Pope Paul VI in mid-1976.
- Pope John Paul II beatified the late priest on 14 October 1979 and later canonized him as a saint on 16 June 1993 while visiting Madrid.
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