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| Blessed John del Prado, Pray for us ! |
⛪ Other Names :
• Giovanni di Prado • John of Prado
⛪ Born : Morgobresio, Kingdom of LΓ©on, Spain
⛪ Died : Burned to death on 24 May 1636 at Morocco
He was a native of the kingdom of Leon, in Spain, and embraced in his own country the austere Order of the Bare-footed Observantin Franciscans. Being sent by the authority of the Congregation de PropagandΓ’ Fide to preach the faith in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, he discharged himself with such great zeal that the Mahometans cast him into a dungeon loaded with chains. The holy confessor suffered with constancy and joy most cruel scourgings and other inhuman torments, and consummated his martyrdom by fire on the 24th of May, on which his name is inserted in the Franciscan Martyrology, by order of Benedict XIV. He was solemnly beatified by Benedict XIII in 1728.
