The bishopric of Vic (Spain) suspended acts chaired by the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Mons. Luis Argüello, for “contrary and limiting actions of religious freedom” promoted by communist and secessionist political groups.
The city of Vic, located about 70 kilometers north of Barcelona, celebrates this year the 400th anniversary of the death of San Miguel de los Santos, religious of the Holy Trinity Patron of the town, co -crop of Spanish night worship and canonized by Pius IX.
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On Friday, July 4, the Diocese of Vic He issued a statement in which he announced the suspension of liturgical celebrations by knowing “the call and preparation of several contrary and limiting actions of religious freedom”, and fearing “these actions could endanger the security of people and cultural heritage.”
Mons. Argüello, as a archbishop of Valladolid, was expected to preside over a Eucharist in the Cathedral of San Pedro and participate in other commemorative acts in the home house of the Trinitarian religious.
In recent weeks, some political groups in the town, such as the independence Republican Esquerra de Cataluña (ERC) and the communist group In common-we can From the town, they had shown their rejection of the presence of Mons. Argüello.
Through their social networks, ERC accused the prelate If, “the rights of the LGTBIQ+collective”, denying women “the right to decide on their body”, to shut up “before sexual abuses in the church” and place “against the right to decide and amnesty”, refer to those who starred in an attempt at a secessionist state in 2017.
For his part, the leader of In common we can, Arnau Martí, said that “Vic does not need sermons or slogans of the extreme right,” and said that Mons. Argüello “campaigns for Vox and demands elections from the altar.”
“We do not want this ultra -right disguised as a cassock at the Fiesta Mayor de Vic. They do not get dirty the square,” he added.
The CDR Independence Callejera Action Group (Defense Committee of the Republic) He also manifested Against the planned presence of Mons. Argüello in Vic and intended to boycott the celebration of the Eucharist in the cathedral: “The outside whistle will be so deafening that within the cathedral none can hear the homily of the bishop or the preaching of the archbishop.”
Who was San Miguel de los Santos
Miguel Agramir and Mitjà was born in Vic on September 29, 1591. He was the seventh son of Enrique and Montserrat. At home the rosary was recited daily and the gospels were read.
As published in the Trinitarian websiteMiguel who was a good child and in his childhood “caught his piety and his spirit of sacrifice” to the point that it is said that “he lay down under the bed and used a stone like pillow.”
Orphan at age 11, lived with uncles dedicated to trade, an activity that was not good. A year later he is admitted as a monaguillo in the trinitarians of Barcelona. At age 15, he moved to the Trinitarian convent of San Lamberto, on the outskirts of Zaragoza, where he performs his profession in 1607. That same year he meets Fray Manuel de la Cruz, a barefoot trinitarian, and identifies himself with his path of austerity.
The novitiate began as a barefoot trinitarian in 1608 and the following year he cast his votes as a barefoot trinitarian taking the name of Miguel de los Santos.
Sent to Salamanca to pursue theology, it is said that, while preached the mysteries of the incarnation “he shouted and rose, as at the height of one meter, with his arms in Cruz and with his looks very stared at a mysterious point. Thus it was for a quarter of an hour.”
Ordered priest in 1617, “his fame of Santo began to circulate throughout Spain thanks to the miraculous conversions he got. To prepare his sermons he spent three days in prayer at the feet of a crucified and three others studying what he had written in the notebook.”
The ecstasy of the saint were frequent as well as other mystical experience that were consigned in a spiritual treaty entitled The tranquility of the soul. It includes “the mystical exchange of hearts between Jesus and Miguel, happened before the Tabernacle when a night of grace was of prayer.”
He died in Valladolid as a result of typhoid fevers at age 33. Pope Pius VI beatified him on May 24, 1779 and was canonized by Pope Pius IX on June 8, 1862.
Nicolás de Cárdenas
Born in 1980, I am a Spanish and journalist’s husband and father with more than 20 years of experience in print and digital media, specialized in socio -political and religious information. I have worked more than 10 years in defense of human rights and I have accreditations in journalism and comprehensive communication. Since July 2022, I am a correspondent for ACI Press and Ewtn News in Spain, covering international events of the Catholic Church.