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          Born into a family faithful to both altar and throne, Francisco Palau y Quer came into the world on December 29, , in the small town of Aitona, near the.

          Francisco Palau

          Francisco Palau y Quer, OCD (Catalan: Francesc Palau i Quer; religious nameFrancisco of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, 29 December 1811 – 20 March 1872) was a CatalanDiscalced Carmelite priest.

          Growing up in the chaos of the Peninsular War in Spain, he followed both the life of a hermit and of a missionary preacher in the rural regions of Catalonia. He founded the School of Virtue, which was a model of catechetical teaching for adults, in Barcelona.

          In 1860 he founded a Carmelite Third Order congregation for both men and women, in the Balearic Islands. The legacy of this foundation is carried on by two religious congregations for women who serve throughout the world.

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        1. Carmelites history
        2. History of the discalced carmelite order
        3. This remarkable hermit discovered the central point of his mission: to serve and defend the object of his ardent love, the Holy Church.
        4. The Blessed Francis Palau, a Spanish Carmelite born in Aytona in and died in Taragona in , was a typical person of the XIX century.

          5. Working from his tradition of Carmelite spirituality, Palau tried to promote the need of basing the spiritual life on recognizing and returning God's love, as opposed to the rationalist doctrines of the theology of his day.

          He was beatified in 1988. One of his spiritual followers was his grea