Fray Jose Maria de Jesus Belaunzaran y Ureña Bishop of Linares, Mexico (1772–1857)

It is sad but true that few Mexicans of our day, even erudite ecclesiastics and faithful Catholic lay historians, know very much about the prelates who led their church during the difficult years from the achievement of independence in 1821 to the commencement of the Reform movement in 1854. Perhaps some will mention a Portugal of Michoacán or a Vasquez of Puebla or a Garza y Ballesteros of Mexico. Not many, however, will remember a Franciscan friar whose life and works have almost been forgotten but who certainly deserves to be remembered by his countrymen and co-religionaries. A famous Catholic review, published in the city of Mexico, carried this note in its issue of September 17, 1857: With the most profound sorrow we announce to our readers that on the eleventh of this month in this capital the Most Illustrious Fray José María de Jesús Belaunzaran died at the age of eighty-five

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