JOHN OF PUEBLA, RELIGIOUS

JOHN OF PUEBLA, RELIGIOUS - 6 OCTOBER

Saints celebrated on the 6th of October

JOHN OF PUEBLA, RELIGIOUS

John of Puebla, or de Sotomajore, a Franciscan in Spain, was the son of Alphons de Sotomajore, Count of Belalcazar. He inherited his father's extensive possessions together with considerable wealth.

After seeing various heavenly apparitions, he forsook the worldly life to became a follower of Jerome. Four years later, longing for a stricter life, he went to Rome, where he received the habit of the Minorites from the hands of Pope Sixtus IV.

After having made his profession he went to the province of Umbria to serve God with the utmost rigour in a monastery near Assisi, called Conventus Carcerum.

Following the death of his younger brother, who perished in the war against Granada, John returned to Spain and took over the guardianship of his nephew. This happened in 1476.

In 1489 John founded a special branch of the Minorites which were named after him. To this end, he drew a band of like-minded people from his former Conventus Carcerum.

With the greatest zeal of all virtues, humility, poverty, solitude, prayer, and mortification, he strove to increase in closeness to the Most High.

He died on October 6,1492. When his grave was opened sixty years after his death, his body was found intact and fragrant.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)

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