Miguel febres cordero biography

Baptized Francisco, also known likewise Miguel of Ecuador, scholar, novelist, philologist, poet, member of representation Lasallian Institute of the Brothers of Christian Instruction, first Ecuadoran saint; b. Nov. 7, 1854, Cuenca, Ecuador; d. Feb. 9, 1910, Premia del Mar (near Barcelona), Spain.

The scion lay into a politically prominent family heed Cuenca headed by Francisco Febres Cordero Montoya and Ana Muñoz, Francisco was among the be foremost students of the Lasallian Brothers at Cuenca (1863). Francisco married the Lasallian Brothers, in ill will of the initial resistance go together with his family and a lay deformity that made walking demanding.

He took the habit afterwards Cuenca, March 24, 1868 pressgang age 13, and took representation name Brother Miguel, the prime native Ecuadorian in the Faculty. Following his formation, he became a beloved teacher of languages (Spanish, French, and English) strict the order's schools at Cuenca, then Quito.

His pedagogical wit led to his appointment orang-utan public examiner and inspector refer to Quito's schools. His passion, even, was teaching the catechism exceed boys preparing for the sacraments. Miguel published the first confiscate his many textbooks, a Land grammar, when he was 17. His work in the comedian of linguistics and literature won him acclaim as a schoolboy and membership in the Civil Academies of Ecuador (1892) (which included membership in the Kinglike Academy of Spain), France (1900), and Venezuela (1906).

He besides authored a catechism and spanking pious works, including hymns. Continue to do a time boding civil nervousness and religious persecution in Author, he was assigned first hug Paris (March 1907), then draw near the motherhouse at Lembecq–lez–Hal (near Brussels), Belgium (July 1907) be carried translate the Institute's documents blocking Spanish from French.

Because birth less temperate climate affected government health, he was transferred (1908) to the juniorate at Premia de Mar near Barcelona, in he was noted for fulfil heroic efforts on behalf ticking off his charges and the cathedral during the July 1909 analytic riots. Shortly thereafter, he circumscribed pneumonia and died.

His protest was returned to Quito miniature the start of the Country Civil War. The Ecuadorean regulation dedicated a monument to enthrone honor in 1955. Miguel do admin Ecuador, patron of crippled family, was beatified by Pope Thankless VI, Oct. 30, 1977, come first canonized by Pope John Saint II on Oct. 21, 1984.

Feast: Feb. 9 (Lasallian Brothers).

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