Josep Manyanet i Vives
Josep Manyanet i Vives (Spanish: José Manyanet y Vives ) ( born January 7, 1833 in Tremp, Spain, † December 17, 1901 in Barcelona) was a Spanish school priests and religious founders. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2004.
Life
Josep M. was born into a large Christian family. At the age of five his mother gave the boy the Mother of God Mary 's life. His education and his studies, he graduated at the Piaristen in Barbastro and in the seminaries of the diocese of Urgell, Lleida and Urgell. On April 9, 1859 he was ordained a priest. In the next few years he worked in the Episcopal Ordinariate of Urgell on several responsible positions. Only later did he chose to establish the pastoral activity and intended two religious communities. Throughout his life, suffered Josep M. eventually after a long hard labor weakened him greatly from mental disorder. On 17 December 1901 he died and was in the chapel, the school he founded Family of Nazareth, the center of his work, buried. He has designed in the sense of the Holy Family of Nazareth His entire pastoral life.
Order ups
1864 approved his diocesan bishop, the Congregation of the Sons of the Holy Family, the clerical members were given the task of promoting the Christian education and to educate young people in the faith. In 1874 the mission Josep M. Daughters of the Holy Family. Both institutes of consecrated life today have operations in several European countries, in North and South America and Africa.
Life's work
Josep Manyanet wanted to portray the life of the Holy Family of Nazareth in publishing and became the editor of the magazine " La Sagrada Familia ". He inspired and promoted the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí for the construction of a cathedral in Barcelona. The Atonement Church of the Holy Family ( " Sagrada Família " ) is still under construction.
Manyanet wrote several articles, letters, books and brochures, which had a Christian upbringing to content, but were also regarded as a guide for schools. The best known, which he founded in 1895 in Barcelona school, the "School of Nazareth ". He was also the founding father of the " Home of the Holy Family ", which later resulted in a student hostel in Barcelona. His 1899 book, published Preciosa joya de familia ( The family a priceless gem) became a guide for the Christian family and the education of children. With the meditative Description de la Sagrada Familia espíritu El ( The Spirit of the Holy Family ), he presented a guide for religious orders by stating the identity of the Holy Family to the mission in the Church and society. Appeared in 1991 in Madrid the Collected Works of Josep Manyanet.
Canonization
The canonization process was formally opened in 1956 and ended in 1982 with the recognition of a healing miracle. 1984, Pope John Paul II 's intercession for the canonization, saying his soul. The canonization took place on May 16, 2004 in Rome, in his homily, the Pope stated:
"The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send you in my name, he shall teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you (John 14:26). From the beginning, the Paraclete has inspired men and women who have created and disseminated the revealed truth of Jesus in memory. One of them was St.. Josep Manyanet, a true apostle of the family. As he was based at the School of Nazareth, he realized his plan of personal holiness and devoted himself with heroic zeal of the mission that the Holy Spirit had entrusted to him. "