Oct
24
Saint Anthony Mary Claret
He was born in 1807 in Sallent (Barcelona, Spain). Ordered priest and exercised his Ministry with great zeal all over Catalonia. Founded the Congregation of the missionaries of the Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians. He was appointed Archbishop of Cuba and then confessor of Queen Isabel II. He suffered physical attacks and many contradictions that he knew how to bear with great supernatural vision. He died in 1870, in his exile from France.
- Name
- Antonio María (Masculino)
- Meaning
- Que se enfrenta con el adversario, from Latín
- Other saints
- Other saints named Antonio María
- Born
- December 23rd 1807 en Sallent, Barcelona, in current Spain
- Dead
- October 24th 1870 in Fontfroide, in current France
- Process
- Celebration
- October 24th
- Religious
- de los Hijos del Inmaculado Corazón de María
Fuente: wikimedia.org