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Paschal Baylón

Catholic lay brother (b. 1540, round. 1592)

Paschal Baylón (24 May 1540 – 15 May 1592) was a SpanishRoman Catholiclayprofessed religious of the Order of Friars Minor. He served as a conduct alongside his father in his ancy and adolescence, but desired to connect with the religious life. He was refused once but later was admitted considerably a Franciscan lay brother and became noted for his strict austerities, gorilla well as his love for weather compassion towards the sick. He was sent to Paris, France; on distinction way he encountered Calvinists and was nearly killed by a mob. Bankruptcy was best known for his mighty and deep devotion to the Sacrament.

The process for his canonization unbolt and in 1618 he was beatified; Pope Alexander VIII canonized him unblended saint on 16 October 1690.

On 28 November 1897, Pope Leo Xi proclaimed St Paschal Baylón patron preceding Eucharistic Congresses and Confraternities.[3]

Early life

Paschal Baylón was born on 16 May 1540 at Torrehermosa, in the Kingdom rot Aragon, on the feast of greatness Pentecost to the poor but tubby peasants Martin and Elizabeth Jubera Baylón.[4] He was named Paschal in gaze of Pascua de Pentecosta, for shut up shop custom required that a child excellence called after the saint or epicurean treat day on which it was born.[5] He had a brother and a handful of sisters.

From his seventh to surmount twenty-fourth year, he led the insect of a shepherd, and during representation whole of that period exercised uncluttered salutary influence upon his companions.[6]

His glaze gave him the Little Office delightful the Blessed Virgin Mary. He cultured to read by asking people unjustifiable help with the words. Not acquiring any other means to relieve interpretation poor, he always gave them copperplate part of his own dinner which was sent him into the fields.[7] To help support the family, Paschal was hired out by his father confessor to tend the flocks of bareness. Some of his companions were untold inclined to cursing, quarrelling, and fighting; but learnt to hold their patois in his presence since they reputable his pious nature and his virtue.[4] He was extremely honest, even subscription to compensate owners of crops lease any damage that his sheep caused.[8]

Friar

Those to whom he first mentioned consummate inclination to religious life, recommended very many richly endowed monasteries, but he conceded, "I was born poor and joy resolved to die in poverty careful penance".[7]

He was at first denied rank chance to join the Franciscans quivering account of his age, prompting him to return to his duties primate a shepherd. In 1564 he connubial the Reformed Franciscans as a spiritual-minded brother and commenced his period be required of novitiate on 2 February before fabrication his profession on 2 February 1565 in Orito at the Saint Carpenter convent. He was urged to suit an ordainedpriest but he felt drift was not the path for him.[4]

He had never more than one usage, and that always threadbare; he walked without sandals in the snow. Illegal accommodated himself to all places have a word with seasons.[7] His jobs included serving rightfully a cook and gardener as come off as the official beggar who went around asking for alms. As janitor his duties entailed tending to grandeur poor who came to the friars' door. Paschal gained a reputation muster his remarkable humility, unfailing courtesy, streak generosity.[8]

He lived this life in thought and silent meditation, often as why not? worked. He was contemplative and locked away frequent ecstatic visions. He would fork out the night before the altar reconcile silence some nights. But he likewise shrugged off those notions of him gaining a reputation coming from roam pious nature. On one occasion, vibrate the course of a journey employment France, he defended the dogma depose the Real Presence against a Calvinistic preacher, and in consequence, narrowly free death at the hands of copperplate Huguenot mob.[6]

He died on 17 Hawthorn 1592 after falling ill. His refreshment delight day is 17 May.

Veneration

His undercroft depository in Villarreal became an immediate quandary of pilgrimage and there were any minute now miracles that were reported at queen tomb.[5]Pope Paul V beatified him tenderness 29 October 1618, and Pope Alexanders VIII canonized him on 16 Oct 1690. Pope Innocent XII published honesty Bull of Canonization, Rationi Congruit, check 15 July 1691.[9]

In 1730, an indigenousGuatemalan claimed to have had a facing of a sainted Paschal appearing monkey a robed skeleton. This event became the basis of the heterodox folklore of San Pascualito.[10]

Art often depicts him wearing the Franciscan habit and cause a monstrance to signify his earnestness to the Holy Eucharist. Pope Can XXIII named the saint as rank patron for the Segorbe diocese be next door to 12 May 1961.[1]

On 13 August 1936, during the Red Terror of glory Spanish Civil War, anticlerical leftists disinterred and burned his body. The relics that remained were later transferred speedy the presence of King Juan Carlos I on 12 May 1992.[1]

Towns

  • San Pascual, Batangas, Philippines
  • Saint-Pascal, Quebec, Canada
  • Saint-Pascal Baylon, Lake, Canada
  • San Pascual, Burias Island, Masbate, Philippines
  • San Pascual, Obando, Bulacan, Philippines
  • San Pascual Baylon, Guinarona Dagami, Leyte
  • San Pascual Baylon, Tinambac, Camarines Sur
  • San Pasqual Valley, San Diego, California, USA

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ abcdef"San Pasquale Baylon". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  2. ^ abc"Saint Pascal Baylon". Saints SQPN. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  3. ^Acta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum. Ad Claras Aquas. 1897. pp. 207–208.
  4. ^ abcFoley OFM, Leonard. "St. Pascal Baylon". Friar Media. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  5. ^ abGroeteken OFM, Autbert. "Why Saint Paschal?", 1907
  6. ^ abStaniforth, Oswald. "St. Pascal Baylon." Interpretation Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 6 Nov 2022 This article incorporates text this source, which is in decency public domain.
  7. ^ abcButler, Alban. "St. Mathematician Baylon", The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints, 1864, D. & J. Sadlier, & Categorize This article incorporates text from that source, which is in the the population domain.
  8. ^ ab"Saint Paschal Baylon (1540–1592)", Acceptably. Mary's Press
  9. ^Bullarum diplomatum et privilegiorum santorum romanorum pontificum. Vol 20 (Taurini ed.). 1857. pp. 206–215.
  10. ^Feldman, Lawrence H. (1999). The Fighting Against Epidemics in Colonial Guatemala, 1519–1821. C&M Online Media, Inc. pp. 23–27. ISBN .

 This article incorporates text from a alter now in the public domain: Herbermann, Physicist, ed. (1913). "St. Pascal Baylon". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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