Bernardo de Hoyos

Bernardo Francisco de Hoyos y de Seña SJ ( born August 21 in 1711 in Torrelobatón, Valladolid, Spain, † November 29, 1735 in Valladolid) was a Spanish Catholic priest. He is considered the first and most important apostles of the Sacred Heart devotion in Spain in the spirit of the apparitions of Margaret Mary Alacoque in Paray -le- Monial and was beatified in 2010 by the Catholic Church.

Life

Bernardo de Hoyos joined with 14 years to Villa de Campos in the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, finished it shortly before he was 17 years old and passed the simple perpetual vows. He then studied philosophy and theology later in Valladolid. Here he learned of the Sacred Heart devotion and experienced in the church of the Jesuit School of this city (San Ambrosio ) his mystical experiences. These involved the dissemination of the Sacred Heart devotion and the rule of the Divine Heart of Spain connected with promises of mercy. De Hoyos was heavily influenced by the reading in Valladolid by Joseph de Gallifets major work De Cultu Sacrosanti Cordis Jesus.

On January 2, 1735, he was ordained a priest. A few months later he died of typhus. After his death, the Jesuit church of Valladolid became a shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and in Santuario Nacional de la Gran Promesa (Eng. about National Sanctuary of the Great Promise ) has been renamed.

On January 12, 1996, Pope John Paul II, the heroic virtues of Father Bernardo de Hoyos fixed. January 16, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI approved. the beatification, which took place on 18 April 2010 under the chairmanship of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Pro - Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in Valladolid.

Works

• The hidden treasure of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1734 )