Franciscan to be beatified Fr. Jose Maria de Manila (Eugenio Mortero), born in Manila in 1880, was martyred as a Franciscan Capuchin in Spain in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. To be beatified on Oct. 13 in Tarragona, Spain, together with 33 other martyrs, 19 of whom were Mercedarians, the Capuchin would henceforth be known Beato Jose Maria de Manila. The information was relayed to us by Dr. Alvin Balatbat, a devotee of Nuestra Señora de la Merced, patroness of Barcelona. (She also has a shrine in Bahay Pare in Candaba, Pampanga.) The new beato will join other Spanish civil war martyrs, mainly Dominicans and Augustinians, who had been based at one time or another in the Philippines and educated at the University of Santo Tomas and Colegio de San Juan de Letran. The beatified UST Dominicans include Beato Buenaventura Garcia Paredes, a former master general of the Dominican Order in Rome and who previously had taught political law at UST; Beato Jesus Villaverde Andres, former dean of the UST Faculty of Sacred Theology and later, rector of Letran; Fr. Antonio Varona Ortega, a professor of Letran; and Fr. Inocencio Garcia Diez, who had taught at Letran in Cagayan (now defunct). Other Philippine-based Spanish Dominicans who finished their theological studies at UST and were also martyred include Beatos Pedro Ibañez Alonso, Manuel Moreno Martinez, Maximino Fernandez Marinas and Jose Ma. Lopez Carillo. Read more: lifestyle.inquirer.net/108653/manila-born-capuchin-martyr-of-the-spanish-civil-war-to-be-beatified#ixzz2ZkYxnR3y Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:18:55 +0000
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