Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló

Statue of Enrique de Ossó y Cervelló at Montserrat

Saint Enrique de Ossó y Cervelló (born in Vinebre on 16 October 1840; died in Gilet, Valencia on 27 January 1896) was a priest and educator. His father had originally opposed his being a priest, while his mother favored it, sending him to do apprentice in textile work. Some time after the death of his mother he fled to the monastery of Montserrat and his father ultimately agreed to his becoming a priest. Enrique de Ossó y Cervelló was ordained in 1867. He became active as a catechist and wrote various works, including one for children, to serve that. He had a particular interest in the value of women and in Teresa of Ávila.^[1] He founded the Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus to educate women and the mass-movement Hermanadad Teresiana Universal.^[2] He was canonized in 1993.^[3][4]

References

1. Butler's Lives of the Saints Volume I, edited by Alban Butler and Paul Burns, pgs 201 and 202
2. Sacred Realism: Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative by Noël Maureen Valis, pg 45
3. OCDS
4. Teresians page