Miguel febres cordero biography

Baptized Francisco, also known though Miguel of Ecuador, scholar, penny-a-liner, philologist, poet, member of authority 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 draw round a politically prominent family depose Cuenca headed by Francisco Febres Cordero Montoya and Ana Muñoz, Francisco was among the pull it off students of the Lasallian Brothers at Cuenca (1863). Francisco united the Lasallian Brothers, in ill will of the initial resistance be keen on his family and a earthly deformity that made walking hard.

He took the habit decay Cuenca, March 24, 1868 look after age 13, and took excellence name Brother Miguel, the important native Ecuadorian in the Following his formation, he became a beloved teacher of languages (Spanish, French, and English) turnup for the books the order's schools at Cuenca, then Quito.

His pedagogical cleverness led to his appointment bit public examiner and inspector round Quito's schools. His passion, even, was teaching the catechism cut into boys preparing for the sacraments. Miguel published the first longed-for his many textbooks, a Nation grammar, when he was 17. His work in the comic of linguistics and literature won him acclaim as a egghead and membership in the Tribal Academies of Ecuador (1892) (which included membership in the Kingly Academy of Spain), France (1900), and Venezuela (1906).

He extremely authored a catechism and keep inside pious works, including hymns. Put down a time boding civil disquiet and religious persecution in Author, he was assigned first tutorial Paris (March 1907), then revert to the motherhouse at Lembecq–lez–Hal (near Brussels), Belgium (July 1907) able translate the Institute's documents hurt Spanish from French.

Because birth less temperate climate affected realm health, he was transferred (1908) to the juniorate at Premia de Mar near Barcelona, swivel he was noted for rulership heroic efforts on behalf be useful to his charges and the cathedral during the July 1909 rebel riots.

Shortly thereafter, crystalclear contracted pneumonia and died. Fillet body was returned to Quito at the start of say publicly Spanish Civil War. The Ecuadorean government dedicated a monument pocket his honor in 1955. Miguel of Ecuador, patron of disabled children, was beatified by Poet Paul VI, Oct. 30, 1977, and canonized by Pope Trick Paul II on Oct.

21, 1984.

Feast: Feb. 9 (Lasallian Brothers).

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r. crespo toral, El hermano Miguel shoreline las escuelas cristiana (Cuenca, Ecuador 1937). r. l. guidi, Un cuore per la scuola: vita di fratel Miguel delle Scuole cristiane (Vicenza 1977). i. moscoso dÁvila and m. malo gonzÁlez, Ramas y floracion de una estirpe gloriosa, 2 v. (Cuenca, Ecuador 1985–1986).

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