Jaime Hilario Barbal
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Saint Jaime Hilario Barbal F.S.C. |
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2 January 1889 Enviny, Lleida, Kingdom of Spain |
| Died | 18 January 1937 (aged 48) La Oliva, Tarragona, Second Spanish Republic |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 29 April 1990, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Canonized | 21 November 1999, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 28 January |
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Saint Jaime Hilario Barbal (2 January 1889 – 18 January 1937) - born Manuel Barbal i Cosín - was a Catalan Roman Catholic and a professed religious from the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He served for almost two decades as a teacher in the schools that his order managed until being caught up in the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War that saw the forces of the Second Spanish Republic execute him.
His beatification was celebrated on 29 April 1990 after it was confirmed that Barbal was killed "in odium fidei" ("in hatred of the faith") and the confirmation of a miracle attributed to his intercession allowed for Pope John Paul II to canonize him as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 21 November 1999.
Manuel Barbal i Cosín was born in Lleida.
He began his ecclesial studies at a religious school where seminarians were educated]] in 1911 for the Diocese of Urgel. But he soon developed hearing problems and was forced to withdraw from the institute and could not pursue a path to the priesthood as he had intended. In 1917 he entered the novitiate of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Irun where he was given the religious name of "Jaime Hilario" and the habit on 24 February. Until 1933 he was sent on various teaching assignments and was regarded as an exceptional teacher and catechist; he taught Latin and was a believer in universal education with an emphasis on the poor. His hearing problems continued to persist and worsen and at the beginning of the 1930s was forced to stop teaching and began work as a gardener at the formation house of Saint Joseph in Tarragona.
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