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In this month, dedicated to deeper prayer for the Missions, we send Nuntia to you. We dedicate this Issue, for the most part, to the Spanish martyrs of the Congregation of the Mission beatified this month. We ask your understanding, because it is a bit long. It is an opportunity to know a little about these confreres, who bore witness to Jesus Christ and our charism with their lives. The biographical information of each confrere was taken from the website of the Madrid Province. For those who want to penetrate into the testimony of these missionaries further, here is the link: http://www.paulesmadrid.org. The Beatification took place in Tarragona, Spain on 13 October. Our Superior General, G. Gregory Gay, came, accompanied by the Postulator General, Shijo Kanjirathamkunnel, to take part in the Beatification. Among the 522 beatified were 14 confreres, 27 Daughters of Charity, and a lay Vincentian woman.
A brief excerpt from Cardinal ngelo Amatos homily at the Beatification in Tarragona
What message do the ancient and the modern martyrs offer us? They leave us a double message. First of all, they invite us to forgive. Pope Francis recently reminded us that The joy of God is forgiving! Here is the entire Gospel! Here! The whole Gospel, all of Christianity, is here! But make sure that it is not sentiment, it is not being a do-gooder! On the contrary, mercy is the true force that can save man and the world from the cancer that is sin, moral evil, spiritual evil. Only love fills the void, the negative chasms that evil opens in hearts and in history. Only love can do this, and this is Gods joy!
He then began to strike him on the head with the transport pikes that he was carrying, without giving him time to say a word of pardon. Father Leoncio fainted and fell unconscious at the first blow to the head. Not satisfied with the barbarity committed, the murderer continued hitting him with boulders. He then threw the body in the cleft of a rock at the edge of the ravine, throwing up a big slab and some stones. Father Leoncio was 41 years old. The neighbors always saw him as a great witness of faith and love; so they mourned his bloody death.
NEBREDA
Leoncio, only son of Jos and Engracia, was born in Villarmentero (Burgos) on 18 March 1895. He entered the Internal Seminary on 29 August 1911. He made his perpetual vows on 1 January 1914. On 10 May 1921, he was ordained a priest. Given his qualities and dispositions for teaching and the education of youth, he was sent to the Apostolic School in Teruel, where he held the position of professor with complete dedication to the boys (1921-1935); after Teruel, he was assigned to Alcorisa, to accompany and help Father Fortunato Velasco in the task of the formation of the apostolic seminarians. Together they carried out the same mission until it was time to enjoy the mission of heaven. On 29 July 1936, on the road to Saragossa, approximately three kilometers from Oliete, a crafty neighbor, feigning help, had him mount one of his horses and led him down a path, until they came to a solitary ravine.
He was ordained to the priesthood on 1 November and was sent to the Philippines. The grain of sand contributed by Father Ireneo in the formation of the Philippine clergy helped to raise up the greatest work that the Congregation of the Mission had carried out in the Philippines. From the Philippines, he went to Cuba, and from there, at the end of 1931, he was sent to the Apostolic School of Guadalajara, where he maintained the Marian and apostolic movements with a Vincentian spirit. Later in the year 1936, but before the outbreak of religious persecution, the educational community of the Central School of Guadalajara escaped to Murgua (lava) in order to move to safety the young aspiring missionaries. Left to guard the School were only Ireneo Rodrguez and three community companions. A certain servant breathed deadly hatred against Father Ireneo and had sworn that one day he would cut off his head. On 26 July 1936, the militants detained and imprisoned the three priests and the Brother, together with other priests, religious, and Catholics. Led to the enclosure of the prison, there they were shot in hatred of the faith, leaving their corpses on the ground. Father Ireneo was 57 years old.
On 26 July 1936, Father Vilumbrales was detained with his community companions. Together they were led to the Central Prison, where they remained confined and suffered countless punishments and penalties. The Camino de Chiloeches crowned his life on 6 December 1936, confessing with his lips the faith that his heart practiced. He was 27 years old and breathed physical and spiritual health from every pore.
On 24 October 1936, eve of the feast of Christ the King, the assassins entered very early in the morning and, with a list in hand, the reader on duty read the name of Comrade Amado, who stepped forward. He embraced Brother Paulino at once, saying to him: Good-bye! Until eternity! and, at the same time, directed a petition to the assassins: Kill me, but do not do anything to this poor old man, who is only a servant of ours. The 24th of October had not yet dawned, when they made him get in a car and drove him to Gijns municipal cemetery (cemetery of Suco, Ceares).
Nominationes / Confirmationes
ONATT Mathew BONFIM DA CONCEIO Manoel Appointed / Assumed office on Visitor Province 24/10/2013 Southern Appointed office on 30/10//2013 Assumed office: 05/11/2013 of India
Ordinationes
IMOISILI Lawrence Ayemere CATAO CORRALES Christian Avelino JIMNEZ MORENO Wilton Yecid NIETO Edwin PAYARES ROJAS Fernando RODRGUEZ CABUYA Erwin Geovanny RUZ MARTNEZ Domingo Jos RAGONA Dario Sac Sac Sac Sac Sac Sac Sac Sac Nig Col Col Col Col Col Col Nea 16/08/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 05/10/2013
Necrologium
Nomen DEBRTOLI Jos LVAREZ ARIAS Manuel Adan GMEZ CACHO Gabriel LAMER Marek GOROWSKI Roman DA FONSECA SOARES Antnio Cond Dies ob. Sac 03/10/2013 Fra 09/10/2013 Sac 21/1072013 Sac 25/10/2013 Sac 25/10/2013 Sac 30/10/2013 Prov. Aet. Voc. Flu Col Cae Pol Nan Lus 79 88 86 60 68 82 60 60 66 40 46 66