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Manuel González García (Seville, – Madrid, ) is a man of the Spanish church, first archpriest of Huelva, then bishop of Malaga and Palencia. He is also the founder of the Eucharistic missionaries of Nazareth. Known as The apostle of abandoned tabernacles . He is venerated as holy by the Catholic Church, canonized by Pope Francis .
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Manuel González García was born in the parish of San Bartolomé, his parents were born in Antequera, Malaga. He joined the San Miguel college in Seville, where the children of the Giralda choir were formed. Before the age of ten, he was one of the sixteen in Seville cathedral, a group of choir children who danced and sang in front of the Blessed Sacrament during the celebrations of the Corpus Christi and the Immaculate Conception.
Seminarian at the age of twelve, he obtained excellent qualifications in all subjects. After fifteen years of study, he obtained the doctorate in theology and the license in canon law.
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He was ordered priest by Cardinal Spinola in 1901. He celebrated his first mass , in the Church of the Holy Trinity, devoted to Marie Auxiliatrice, to which he will always recommend himself as a mediator.
In 1902, he was sent by the Archbishop of Seville to Palomares del Rio (Seville) to preach a mission; ignored by the authorities, he went to the Church, which he found dirty and abandoned. On his knees, before the abandoned tabernacle, before Jesus Sacrament, Manuel Gonzalez thought of the quantity of abandoned tabernacles that there was in the world, thus receiving the charismatic grace which transformed his life and oriented his Eucharistic works.
His first charge was as chaplain of the residence of the elderly of the Sisters of the Poor of Seville.
THE , he was appointed parish priest of the parish of San Pedro de Huelva. For 11 years, he lived there until he was proposed as auxiliary bishop of Malaga. In Huelva, he was instituted archpriest of the city where he founded the schools of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the lawyer and pedagogue Manuel Siurot.
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The , Pope Benoit XV names him auxiliary bishop of Malaga. On the death of the bishop, he became an apostolic administrator and then bishop.
The night of , the crowd incendia the episcopal palace of Malaga, reducing the archives, works of art and documents in ashes, as well as most of the temples and convents of Malaga.
The bishop escaped in extremis, with relatives and religious, through a rear door of the flame building. After a night spent with a diocesan priest, in front of the climate of tension and the lack of guarantee on the part of the authorities, he left the city, where he will never return; and left the For Gibraltar, where he was welcomed by the local bishop, Richard Joseph Fitzgerald. There were 6 months in Gibraltar, until . He then traveled to Ronda, then Madrid, from where he directed the diocese from 1932.
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The , Pope Pius XI named him bishop of Palencia.
It will be the last five years of his life. He experienced there, in the monastery of San Isidro de Dueñas, Saint Rafael Arnaiz Baron.
From Palencia, he still found time to create his latest periodic publication, the children’s review Queen .
He died in the Rosary sanatorium in Madrid, the . He was buried in the cathedral of Palencia, in the chapel of the Holy Sacrament, under the inscription by him dictated: “I ask to be buried next to a tabernacle, so that my bones, after my death, like my language and my pen during my life, continue to say to those who pass: here is Jesus! Here is it! Do not abandon it! »»
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