Beatified: 24 April, 1988
Optional Memoria: 7 November
“God allows your defects to humble you. Try to correct them, counting on the assistance of grace.”
Blessed Francis Palau y Quer is a beatified Discalced Carmelite Spanish priest. Born in Aytona, Lerida, Spain, he entered the Order in 1832 and was ordained priest in Barbastro (province of Huesca, Spain) in 1836. But because of the civil turmoil he was forced to live in exile and outside his community.
Though he grew up in the chaos of the Peninsular War in Spain, by age 14, Francis was certain of his vocation to the priesthood. Like all the other great figures of Carmelite history, Francisco Palau was captivated by St. Teresa of Avila through her writings. He had felt called to the priesthood from childhood, but in 1828, at the age of twenty, he enrolled himself in the diocesan seminary.
A Catalan Discalced Carmelite mystic, friar and priest, he wrote the book THE STRUGGLE OF THE SOUL WITH GOD. He founded The School of the Virtue — which was a model of catechetical teaching for adult persons—at Barcelona. Around 1860-1861, he also founded the Carmelite Missionaries – an international religious congregation for women.
He was beatified by 24 April, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
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