Mexican Bishop of Incredible Accomplishments to Be Beatified On June 5

L’Osservatore Romano: On Sunday, June 5th in El Burgo de Osma, Soria, Spain, Juan de Palafox will be proclaimed Blessed. It will be a day of joy, after a long process of one of the most complex Causes in the history of the Church. Juan de Palafox y Mendoza was born in 1600 in Fitero, Navarra, Spain where he spent his childhood. He attended university at Huesca, Alcala’ and Salamanca and in 1626 entered into the service of the Monarchy. In 1629 he became a priest and in 1639 a bishop. Nominated Bishop of Puebla de los Angeles in Mexico (New Spain), Palafox had important responsibilities as viceroy and apostolic visitor. Read full account here.