Tomb of Saint Hermano Pedro de Betancur
El Santo Hermano Pedro died, his work was banned by order of men, but when the seed is planted and cultivated hands of love in service to others, lives and fruits forever.
was born on March 21, 1626 in Vilaflor, a town in southern Tenerife, Canary Islands Spain. Religious Franciscan tertiary. First Holy Canario and First Holy Guatemala. He had a great devotion to the Virgin of Candelaria (general patron of the Canary Islands).
Blessed Pedro de San Jose de Betancur could read the Gospel through the eyes of the poor and lived the mysteries of Bethlehem and the Cross. Son of pastoralists and farmers, had the grace to be educated by their deeply Christian parents; at age 23 left his native Tenerife and, after 2 years, arrived in Guatemala, a land that Providence had assigned to his missionary apostolate.
worked as a missionary, evangelizing and helping the poor. Founded in 1656 the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Bethlehem (known as the Order of the Betlemitas). Professed as a Franciscan tertiary San Francisco Convent in Antigua Guatemala current, with a well defined program to revive the experience of Jesus of Nazareth in humility, poverty, penance and service to the poor.
At first he made his program as a custodian and clerk of the Holy Calvary Chapel, near the Franciscan convent, which became the radiating center charity. He visited hospitals, prisons, homes poor, unemployed migrants, young misguided, uneducated, and the services delivered to those who managed to make a first foundation to house the homeless young whites, mestizos and blacks. Attended the religious and civil criteria still classified as modern.
was beatified in 1980 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002. His birthplace was renovated and it was built a church and convent in the care of the order of Bethlehem. In the southern district of Granadilla de Abona, near shore, where he lived as a youngster while his flock grazed in winter, is the cave of Santo Hermano Pedro, place of pilgrimage.
El Santo Hermano Pedro died, his work was banned by order of men, but when the seed is planted and cultivated hands of love in service to others, lives and fruits forever.
"REMEMBER BROTHERS
THAT WE HAVE A SOUL
AND IF WE LOSE
NOT RECOVER "
Vista Front
Side View
And I also want to share the famous holy man tree plants there for the year 1657, and which are attributed to their flowers many miracles of people who use them, healing of many diseases.
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