by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The Order of Augustinian Recollects came into being in the 16th century when a group of Augustinian religious, under the impulse of the Holy Spirit, discovered among themselves a collective charism by which they sought to live a life of renewed fervor and of new norms...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Chapter VI, n. 44 of the Constitutions of Ratisbona, which were approved in the year 1290, ordered that the anniversary of all the deceased brothers be celebrated in all the communities of the Order on the day after the Octave of the Apostles Peter and Paul, that is...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Blessed Mariano was born in Barrio de la Puebla of Valdavia (Palencia) in the year 1905. He was ordained priest after finishing his studies in the Augustinian seminaries of Valladolid and La Vid (Burgos). Two years after, he sailed for Brazil where he exercised...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Frederick was born, lived and died in Regensburg in Bavaria. He joined the Order there in what was at the time one of its most important houses in the thriving province of Bavaria. He lived the life of a Brother, faithfully serving the community as carpenter and...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Mother Maria of St. Joseph (Laura Alvarado Cardozo), was born in the picturesque little seaport village of Choroní, Aragua, Venezuela, on April 25, 1875, the oldest of four children. Laura wanted to consecrate herself to God in a cloistered convent. Prevented...
