Venerable
Aureliano of the Blessed Sacrament
BornPedro Landeta Azcueta
(1887-06-27)27 June 1887
Basauri, Spain
Died16 November 1963(1963-11-16) (aged 76)
Ernakulam, Kerala, India

Pedro Landeta Azcueta also known as Aureliano of the Blessed Sacrament was a Professed Priest of the Discalced Carmelites.[1][2][3]

Life

Azcueta was born on 27 June 1887 in Artunduaga de Basauri, Spain.[1][2]

He joined the novitiate of the Teresian Carmel of Larrea on 21 April 1900 and took the name Aureliano on 5 August 1903. He was ordained a priest on 10 December 1910 in the cathedral of Pamplona and sent to India as a missionary in 1913. On 5 October 1912, he along with two more companions landed in Bombay. He reached Ernákulam on 9 October 1912 in a motorboat. He worked in Malabar, India.[2][1]

In India, Azcueta directed and encouraged the young seminarians for many years. He was national director of the Eucharistic League from 1928 to 1945. He organized National Eucharistic Congresses in India in 1931 and 1937, and helped foster daily and noctural eucharistic adoration in India, Burma and Ceylon. In 1933 he published a schedule of 868 churches in which adoration continued 24 hours a day.[2][1]

He died in Ernakulam, India on 16 November 1963.[2] Pedro was declared venerable on 26 March 1999 by Pope John Paul II.[2][1]

Works

See also

List of saints of India

References


  1. ^ a b c d e "Pedro Landeta y Azcueta | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Venerable Aureliano of the Blessed Sacrament". CatholicSaints.Info. 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  3. ^ "Catholic.net". es.catholic.net. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  4. ^ Aurelian of the Blessed Sacrament (1938). The mirror of priests: or a series of questions for the examination of conscience on ascetic life and pastoral duties to which is added A little treasury of selected prayers. Washington, D.C.: Discalced Carmelite Fathers. OCLC 15606866.
  5. ^ Aurelian of the Blessed Sacrament (1917). Cursus asceticus (in Latin). Ernakulam: Typis Scholae Industrialis. OCLC 20229102.
  6. ^ Aurelian of the Blessed Sacrament (1950). Manuale cursus vitae spiritualis (in Latin). Alwaye [India: Jubilee Memorial Press. OCLC 19818475.
  7. ^ Aurelian of the Blessed Sacrament (1937). The Holy Eucharist: sermons reprinted from "The Eucharist and Priest". Alwaye [S. India: Jubilee Memorial Press, St. Joseph's Apostolic Seminary. OCLC 38767654.
  8. ^ Aurelian of the Blessed Sacrament (1927). Manuale Cursus Ascetici: Complectans Tres Vias Vitae Spiritualis Purgativam, Illuminativam et Unitivam (in Latin). Ernakulam: Typis Scholae Industrialis. OCLC 40691352.
  9. ^ Aurelian of the Blessed Sacrament (1962). The Divine Consoler. Alwaye North [S. India: Sacred Heart League. OCLC 38767057.
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