Juan García López-Rico
Spanish Catholic priest (1561–1613) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Juan García López-Rico (10 July 1561 – 14 February 1613), known as John Baptist of the Conception, was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest from the Trinitarian Order who would establish a branch of his order which he named the Order of Discalced Trinitarians.
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Born | 10 July 1561 Almodóvar del Campo, Ciudad Real, Spain |
Died | 14 February 1613(1613-02-14) (aged 51) Córdoba, Spain |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Beatified | 26 September 1819, Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States by Pope Pius VII |
Canonized | 25 May 1975, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Paul VI |
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He made it his mission to renew his order and he became known as a great reformer of the aims and structure of his order which he had applied to the new one that he established. He was also a prolific writer on theological matters.
He was beatified in 1819 and was canonized in 1975.[1]