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El padre odorico d andrea vive en cada ciudadano de san rafael del norte
José D'Andrea Valeri (Montorio to the Vomano, Italy, 5 March 1916 – Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 22 March 1990) known as Father Odorico D'Andrea, was a religious Catholic italonicaragüense, founder -together with the Father Francisco Javier Munguía Alvarado- of the Sisters Franciscanas Pilgrims of the Spotless Heart of María. He was missionary of the Order of the Franciscanos Lower (Ordo Fratrum Minorum), devoted to the mission in the communities of the City of North Saint Rafael in the department of Jinotega, Nicaragua.
Contents
- El padre odorico d andrea vive en cada ciudadano de san rafael del norte
- Religion
- Biography
- Social work in Jinotega
- His death
- References
He is known as The Siervo of God Fr. Odorico D'Andrea.
Religion
Biography
He was born on 5 March 1916 in the Italian City of Montorio to the Vomano, son of Catholic parents Antonio D'Andrea and Ana Rosa Valeri.
On 26 September 1930 he entered the Lower Seminar Franciscano of Citta gave Castello. You saw the habit franciscano on 10 September 1933, in the novitiate of the Ff. Anunziata In Amelia, and adopts there the name of Odorico.
On 25 April 1942 he received the priestly ordination in Santa María of the Angels. After a brief period in the Seminar of Farneto, in 1945 he moved to the Convents of Amelia, Lugnano and Pantanelli, from where exerted the itinerant apostolate in Toscolano, Melezzole Morre and Attigliano.
In 1952 he requested to the upper he be sent to a Mission of Nicaragua. He arrived in Nicaragua on 26 August 1953 and was allocated to the House of Saint José in Matagalpa.
Social work in Jinotega
He is considered a prophet and reconciliador of peace in Nicaragua by the Catholic church in the time of war; for getting together the Contras with the Popular Sandinista Army.
He reconstructed the hermitage of North Saint Rafael and the Community of The Concord (1962).
He initiated the construction of the Hospital of Saint Rafael (1964). It managed the installation of drinkable water for Saint Rafael north and the Community of Big Savannah (1965). He built the hermitage of Tepeyac, and the house of Retreat Tepeyac (1966), place where the Via Crucis is the most famous in Nicaragua. He built the school of the Community of Saint Marcos and a medical dispensary(1967). He built the house for doctors and the sick(1947).
His death
He died due to a complete blockage of the left auricula of the heart (22 March 1990). To his burial assisted more than ten thousand people.
His body was interred, afterwards to be exhumed to a sarcophagus placed inside The Tepeyac chapel. Steps for the canonization process of the now called "Siervo of god" were then started in 2002 by Bishop of Take, Monseñor Sergio Goretti.