Blessed Mariano de Jesus Eues Hoyos – Saint of the Day – July 13

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Bl. Mariano de Jesus Eues Hoyos Biography

Blessed Mariano de Jesus Eues Hoyos Profile. Born: October 14 1845 in Colombia, South America. Worked in Angostura, Colombia. Died: July 13 1926 in Colombia. Feast Day is celebrated on July 13.
 
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Bl. Mariano de Jesus Eues Hoyos Biography, Feast Day, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death.

Date of Birth October 14 1845
Country of Birth Colombia of South America
Matrimony/Holy Orders Bl.s who were Priests
Profession Priest
Place of Work Angostura, Colombia
Date of Death July 13 1926
Place of Death Angostura, Antioquia, Colombia
Feast Day July 13
Beatification Pope John Paul II
Canonization N/A
Patron Saint of against cancer

Biography

Blessed Mariano de Jesus Eues Hoyos, the eldest son of a religious rural Colombian family in a time when the state was hostile to the Church. From age 16 he wanted to become a priest; he entered the new Medellin Seminary at age 24, and was ordained in 1872. Worked in the parishes of San Pedro and Yarumel, and in 1878 he was assigned as priest to Angostura, Colombia where he spent the rest of his life.

Mariano had a great love for the poor, especially rural labourers. His preaching was simple and effective, his time spent ministering to the spiritual and social needs of his flock, and the people who knew him considered him a saint in life. However, his parish was in an area beset by civil war, and neither side seemed sympathetic to the Church; several times Mariano had to hide in nearby caves to escape the fighting.

Beatification

Padre Marianito was beatified after confirmation of a miracle in the life of Father Rafael Gildardo Velez Saldarriaga of Medellin. Velez underwent prostate surgery in 1970; in 1982 he developed cancer on the scar. He had surgery, cobalt and estrogen therapies, and seemed to have recovered. In March 1987 he developed an oedema of the legs that turned into elephantiasis followed by metastasis of the spinal column, and the 75 year old priest was pronounced terminal. But in September 1987 he began to improve.

In two months the oedema reduced, the cellulitis and bone metastasis had disappeared. Doctors and scientists examined Father Velez in June 1991, and declared his cure had no scientific explanation. Additional analyses carried out in 1997 showed complete recovery, and on 4 April 1998, the Medical Commission of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints acknowledged unanimously that the priest‘s cure could not be scientifically explained, and was attributed to Padre Marianito’s intercession.

Blessed Mariano de Jesus Eues Hoyos
Bl. Mariano de Jesus Eues Hoyos


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