In this year we have written about many missionaries: Sister Clare Crockett (Blog 4/17), Irish nun who died in Ecuador, Bl. Richard Henkes (9/18), S of God Madeleine & Raoul Follereau (2/11) dedicated their lives to the lepers in East Africa, Servant of God John Joseph McCauley (2/18), to name a few. This next missionary is a bit closer to home in the Northwest.
FATHER SEGUNDO LLORENTEa Jesuit missionary spent most of his apostolic life deep in the Arctic Polar Circle. He was born on November 18, 1906 in Mansilla Mayor in theprovince of Leon , Spain
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FATHER SEGUNDO LLORENTEa Jesuit missionary spent most of his apostolic life deep in the Arctic Polar Circle. He was born on November 18, 1906 in Mansilla Mayor in the
In 1930 he traveled to the US as a member of the Oregon 's Jesuit Province to teach at Gonzaga High School in Spokane , Washington Kansas Alma , California
In 1935 he departed for Alaska Townsend , Washington
He had volunteered for "the most remote and difficult places", and soon after obtained permission to go to Alaska Yukon River . He spent long seasons in Akurulak, Bethel Spain
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In 1938 he was assigned to Kotzebue in Alaska
In 1975 after 40 years in Alaska , he was transferred to Moses Lake, Washington, and six years later to Pocatello , Idaho
In 1984 he became chaplain at St. Joseph Hospital in Lewinston , Idaho and died five years later in Spokane , Washington Desmet , Idaho
He wrote twelve books about Alaska , all of them in Spanish, even though four years of theology school in Kansas
He never said no to God and lived a happy life as a priest. Testimonies about this attitude were attested several times in his writings, particularly in the following paragraph of the previously cited book: "Neither the Blessed Virgin nor the angels can do what priests do every day, Christ could have arranged things in many other ways; but He chose the intervention of the priests. Upon this figure He partakes to bring salvation to the human race".
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In spite of his many labors, there is a real contemplative side to his spiritual side. Was it the long dark days and nights that gave him time to reflect and pray?
In spite of his many labors, there is a real contemplative side to his spiritual side. Was it the long dark days and nights that gave him time to reflect and pray?
"During my visit to the U.S.A.
"In the great churches of the cities and even in the small towns, there is a tabernacle, so distant from the people that it looks as if one were also far from the Most Holy".
"In the great churches of the cities and even in the small towns, there is a tabernacle, so distant from the people that it looks as if one were also far from the Most Holy".
"Among the promises to the devotes of his Sacred Heart we could not miss a most special one for his priests, the promised grace to soften the hearts of those most hardened"
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"It seems very common for the Lord having to obey; when I consecrate He must obey; when I absolve He must approve, if there is no faulty impediment; When I baptize He must adopt the creature. He voluntarily submitted Himself to us, as it is often said: "He opted to be at our service".
