Francisco Palau

Infobox Saint
name=Blessed Francisco Palau y Quer
birth_date= December 29, 1811
death_date=death date|1872|3|20|df=y
feast_day=November 7
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


imagesize=200px
caption="I will live and I will die for the Church."
birth_place=Aytona, Lleida, Spainflagicon|Spain
death_place=Tarragona, Spainflagicon|Spain
titles=
beatified_date=April 24 1980
beatified_place=St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican Cityflagicon|Vatican City
beatified_by=Pope John Paul II
attributes= Founder of the Congregations of Carmelite Brothers and Carmelite Sisters
patronage=
major_shrine=
suppressed_date=
issues=
prayer= Intercession to Blessed Francisco Palau

Biography

Born in Aytona, Lleida, on December 29, 1811, Blessed Francis Palau y Quer entered the Carmelite Order in 1832 and was ordained priest in 1836. Civil turmoil forced him to live in exile and outside his community. On his return to Spain in 1851, he founded his "School of Virtue" -- which was a model of catechetical teaching -- at Barcelona. The school was suppressed and he was unjustly exiled to Ibiza (1854-1860) where he lived at El Vedra in solitude and experienced mystically the vicissitudes of the Church. While in the Balearic Islands he founded the Congregations of Carmelite Brothers and Carmelite Sisters (1860-1861). He preached popular missions and spread love of Our Lady wherever he went. He died at Tarragona on March 20, 1872, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24, 1980.

ee also

*Carmelite Rule of St. Albert
*Book of the First Monks
*Constitutions of the Carmelite Order
*Byzantine Discalced Carmelites
*Carmelites

External links

* [http://carmelnet.org/galleries/Saints/Saints_3/Francis/francis.htm Fr. Francisco Palau Y Quer]