Faustino Blessed

Education

As a child he studied Latin and the humanities in Ourense where he first discovered and discerned his vocation to become a priest.

Career

After he became a Piarist he assumed the name of Faustino of the Incarnation. He gained a reputation as a formidable pastor and a man dedicated to education and to science. He was beatified on 25 October 1998.

Manuel Míguez González was born in Spain on 24 March 1831 as the fourth child.

He studied natural sciences. He established the Daughters of the Divine Shepherdess in 1885 for girls and placed emphasis on their education for the promotion of women in life.

He also established the Calasanzian Institute for the education of all people. He died on 8 March 1925.

The cause of beatification commenced in Madrid in 1982 which conferred upon him the title of Servant of God.

Two local processes were held in Madrid and both were validated in 1984. The Positio - the documentation on his life of heroic virtue - was submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome in 1984 for evaluation. Pope John Paul II recognized that he had lived a life of heroic virtue and proclaimed him to be Venerable on 2 December 1994.

A miracle attributed to him was approved on 6 April 1998 and led to his beatification on 25 October 1998.

The miracle required for his canonization was investigated and was ratified in 2010.

Achievements

• He was the founder of both the Calasanzian Institute and the Daughters of the Divine Shepherdess.