Saint John of God Mar 8 www.oremosjuntos.com/Santoral/Marzo8.html San Juan de Dios, Granada († 1550…

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Saint John of God Mar 8
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San Juan de Dios, Granada († 1550) Nació y murió un 8 de marzo. Nace en Portugal en 1495 y muere en Granada, España, en 1550 a los 55 años de edad. De familia pobre pero muy piadosa, su madre falleció cuando él era todavía muy joven, y su padre murió como religioso en un convento. En su juventud fue pastor, muy apreciado por el dueño de la finca donde trabajaba, por lo que le propusieron que se casara con la hija del patrón y así quedaría como heredero de aquellas posesiones. San Juan fundó un hospital, y enseñó con su ejemplo que a ciertos enfermos hay que curarles primero el alma si se quiere obtener después la curación de su cuerpo. Sus religiosos atienden enfermos mentales en todos los continentes y con grandes y maravillosos resultados, empleando siempre los métodos de la bondad y de la comprensión, en vez del rigor de la tortura. El 8 de marzo de 1550, sintiendo que le llegaba la muerte, se arrodilló en el …More

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Saint John of God - March 8
Also known as
Giovanni di Dio
Juan de Dios
Juan Ciudad
Memorial
8 March
Profile
Juan grew up working as a shepherd in the Castile region of Spain. He led a wild and misspent youth, and travelled over much of Europe and north Africa as a soldier in the army of Charles V, and as a mercenary. Fought through a brief period of insanity. Peddled religious books and pictures in Gibraltar, though without any religious conviction himself. In his 40’s he received a vision of the Infant Jesus who called him John of God. To make up for the misery he had caused as a soldier, he left the military, rented a house in Granada, Spain, and began caring for the sick, poor, homeless and unwanted. He gave what he had, begged for those who couldn’t, carried those who could not move on their own, and converted both his patients and those who saw him work with them. Friend of Saint John of Avila, on whom he tried to model his life. John founded the Order of Charity and the Order of Hospitallers of Saint John of God.
Born
8 March 1495 at Montemoro Novo, Evora, Portugal
Died
8 March 1550 at Granada, Spain while praying before a crucifix from a illness he had contracted while saving a drowning man
relics at Granada
Beatified
21 September 1630 by Pope Urban VIII
Canonized
16 October 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII
Patronage
against alcoholism
against bodily ills
against sickness
alcoholics
bookbinders
booksellers
dying people
firefighters
heart patients
hospitals (proclaimed on 22 June 1886 by Pope Leo XIII)
hospital workers
nurses (proclaimed on 28 August 1930 by Pope Pius XII)
publishers
printers
sick people (proclaimed on 22 June 1886 by Pope Leo XIII)
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Granada, Spain
Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
Tultepec, Mexico
Representation
alms
alms box around his neck
cord
crown of thorns
heart
rope

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