- Ángel Herrera Oria
Ángel Herrera Oria (Santander,
1886 ,November 19 -Madrid ,1968 ,July 28 ) was a Spanishjournalist , Catholic lay leader,politician and later priest,bishop and cardinal. He co-founded and presided (1908-1935) theAsociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas (ACNdP) (Propagandists Catholic National Association [Understand the term 'propaganda' in its etymological meaning.] ), and the rightist party Acción Nacional (named after Acción Popular) (1931), presided SpanishCatholic Action (1933-1935), and edited (1911-1933) the pre-Civil War most important Catholic newspaper, "El Debate ".He studiedLaw at the Universities of Salamanca and Deusto, and hold hisdoctorate at theUniversity of Madrid in 1908. That year, he co-founded, with thejesuit Ángel Ayala, the ACNdP. On November 1911, he purchased "El Debate," a Catholic newspaper established a year before, and he made of it one of the most read newspapers in Spain. In 1912, the ACNdP established theEditorial Católica , a leading Catholic publishing house during 20th century Spain. In 1926 he founded the firstJournalism School in Spain, associated with "El Debate".When the Second Republic was proclaimed, he founded the political party Acción Nacional (later named Acción Popular, as government banned the usage of term 'national' by any political party), with very little political success. In 1933, he was elected president of Spanish
Catholic Action and left edition of "El Debate." That same year, the ACNdP founded theCentro de Estudios Universitarios (CEU).In 1936 he decided to become priest and began his ecclesiastical studies in the
University of Fribourg . He was ordained priest in 1940. He was assigned as coadjutor to aparish inSantander , where he founded several social initiatives. In 1944, he encouraged the establishment by the Editorial Católica of the prestigiousBiblioteca de Autores Cristianos (BAC). In 1947 he was appointedBishop of Málaga . He advocated a large number of apostolic and social initiatives in hisdiocese and his homilies were very often nationwide broadcasted. Spanish Catholic Action elected him as its national ecclesiastical counselor from 1949 to 1955. In 1951 he founded the Leo XIII Social Institute, later the Faculty of Arts of thePontifical University of Salamanca (Madrid campus), and between 1958 and 1967 he presided the Editorial Católica. He participated in theSecond Vatican Council and in 1965 he was appointed cardinal byPaul VI . He retired as bishop of Malaga in 1966. In 1996, the process of hiscanonization began and he was proclaimedServant of God .Notes
Bibliopraphy
* García Escudero, José María: "De periodista a cardenal: vida de Ángel Herrera", Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1998
* García Escudero, José María: "El pensamiento de Ángel Herrera: antología política y social", Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1987
* Herrera Oria, Ángel: "Obras completas" (6 vols., edited by José Luis Gutiérrez García), Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 2002-2006
* Sánchez Jiménez, José: "El Cardenal Herrera Oria: Pensamiento y acción social", Madrid: Encuentro, 1986External links
* [http://www.acdp.es/fundadores.asp#ho Biography by the ACdP]
* [http://www.fpablovi.org/herreraoria/documentos/biografiacompletaherreraoria.pdf Biography by Fundación Pablo VI, Pontifical University of Salamanca (Madrid campus)]
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