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Posadas, Francisco de, Blessed

POSADAS, FRANCISCO DE, BEATO

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POSADAS, Francisco de, Blessed. - Spanish Dominican, b. at Cordova on 25 Nov. 1644, d. there on 20 Nov. 1713.

He exercised the apostolate, renewing the fruits of the preaching of St. Vincent Ferrer. He was a great penitent and thaumaturge. He wrote ascetical and historical treatises, in part published. Among these are remembered: Triumphos de la castidad contra la luxuria diabolica de Molinos (Cordova 1698, 1748; Madrid 1775); Vida del glorioso patriarcha s. Domingo de Guzmán... (Cordova 1701, 1703; Madrid 1748; Barcelona 1790). He was beatified by Pius VII on 20 Sept. 1818; his feast falls on 20 Sept.

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BIBL.: Année dominicaine, II, Lyon 1900, pp. 669-97; R. Ramírez de Arellano, Ensayo de un catálogo biográfico de escritores de la provincia y diócesis de Córdoba, I, Madrid 1922, pp. 486-492.

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By Lanfranco Fiore

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), col. 1821.

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Fiore, Lanfranco. “Posadas, francisco de, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1821. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/posadas-francisco-de-beato.

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Fiore, Lanfranco. “Posadas, francisco de, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1821. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/posadas-francisco-de-beato.

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  author    = {Fiore, Lanfranco},
  title     = {Posadas, francisco de, beato},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {1821},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/posadas-francisco-de-beato}
}

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