Enciclopedia Cattolica

DOMINGO Y SOL, MANUEL

Volume IV · p. 1059 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

DOMINGO y SOL, MANUEL. - Priest, b. at Tortosa (Spain), 1 Apr. 1839, d. there 25 Jan. 1909. Ordained priest on 2 June 1860 and having obtained academic degrees at Valencia, he devoted himself to an intense apostolate. Animated by ardent zeal for the young clergy, he attended to their formation, establishing for this purpose in 1885 the Congregation of diocesan workers. In 1892 he founded in Rome the Spanish college for Spanish clerics who come to com-

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to complete his ecclesiastical studies there. He spread among his pupils the reparative devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The cause for his beatification has been introduced before the Sacred Congregation of Rites.

BIBL.: A. Torres, Vida de don E. D. y. S., Tortosa 1932; G. Martil, Un apóstol de las vocaciones sacerdotales, Madrid 1941. Silverio Mattei
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