{"id":48059,"date":"2025-05-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=48059"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:18:47","slug":"job-and-juan-de-avila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/job-y-juan-de-avila\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Job and St. John of Avila, priest and patron saint of the clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The saint Job, the protagonist of the Old Testament book of Job, was a man of admirable patience in the land of Hus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franciscanos.org\/agnofranciscano\/m05\/dia0510.html\">In summary<\/a>was a rich man, married, with ten children, servants, land and cattle. He feared God, who tested him with the death of his children, his ruin and the loss of his health. He did not curse God or rebel against him, but accepted him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having overcome all trials with patience, the Lord gave him health, ten more children and prosperity, and he died an old man. The book of Job depicts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/es\/santos\/05\/10.html\">a model<\/a> of patience and holiness, like the suffering Christ. Job says: \"\u00ddahweh gives, Yahweh takes away, blessed be Yahweh!\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a curiosity, the young Karol Wojtyla, in the first months of 1940, when the Second World War and the occupation of Poland had just begun, composed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.editorialdidaskalos.org\/libro\/job_156593\/\">theatrical drama<\/a> Job, a reflection on human suffering. Almost at the same time, the same publishing house launched last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/news\/carmen-alvarez-wojtyla-wrote-jeremiah-to-strengthen-the-faith\/\">Jeremiah<\/a>also of the young Wojtyla, later a saintly pope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Apostle, Doctor of the Church<\/strong> <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 10th, the liturgy also celebrates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/focus\/vocations\/priests-saints-saint-juan-de-avila\/\">St. John of Avila<\/a>Spanish priest of the 16th century, known as the \"apostle of Andalusia\" for his evangelizing work in that region. He is considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/news\/experiences\/initiatives\/what-juan-de-avila-lived-is-not-much-different-from-what-we-found-today\/\">patron saint of the Spanish clergy<\/a>Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed him Doctor of the Church in 2012. Pope Francis established that the commemoration of St. John of Avila be inscribed in the general Roman calendar on May 10, as a free memorial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. John of Avila was born in Almodovar del Campo (Ciudad Real, Spain) in 1499. After studying in Salamanca and Alcal\u00e1, he was ordained a priest in 1526. He distributed his goods among the poor and decided to go to the Indies. But the archbishop of Seville managed to keep him in his diocese, where he developed an intense apostolic activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>He preached tirelessly, wrote 'Audi, filia'.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unjustly accused of heresy by the Inquisition, St. John of Avila wrote from prison an important part of his spiritual doctrine. He was absolved in 1533. In Granada he converted St. John of God. He founded colleges for the formation of the clergy, later converted into seminaries, and addressed memorials to the Council of Trent on the situation of priests. He preached tirelessly, addressed many souls personally or by letter, and died in Montilla (Cordoba) on May 10, 1569.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His main work is entitled <em>Audi, filia<\/em>a systematic and comprehensive treatise on the spiritual life, which has become a classic of spirituality, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/focus\/vocations\/priests-saints-saint-juan-de-avila\/\">has written<\/a> Manuel Belda. The Spanish saint was beatified by Leo XIII on April 6, 1894. Named Patron of the Spanish secular clergy by Pius XII on July 2, 1946, he was canonized by St. Paul VI on May 31, 1970.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Martyrs, Saints Solangia and Beatrice d'Este<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The liturgy of May 10 also includes holy martyrs such as Alfio, Filadelfio and Cirino, born in Vaste (Lecce, Italy), imprisoned for being Christians, and tortured to death in Lentini (Sicily), in 253, during the persecution of Emperor Valerian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also celebrated today are women like Saint Solangia, a shepherdess from Bourges, Aquitaine (France), who rejected a son of a count on the grounds that she had consecrated herself to God, and he beheaded her (9th century). The people immediately considered her a martyr of chastity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Italian Blessed Beatrice d'Este, from Padua (Italy) in 1200, was orphaned at the age of six. At 14, overcoming the opposition of her family, she entered the monastery of Benedictine nuns of Solarola, near Padua. She was an example of austere and virtuous life, and died in 1226.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El santo Job, protagonista del libro de Job del Antiguo Testamento, fue var\u00f3n de admirable paciencia en el pa\u00eds de Hus. En s\u00edntesis, era un hombre rico, casado, con diez hijos, criados, tierras y ganado. Era temeroso de Dios, que le prob\u00f3 con la muerte de sus hijos, su ruina y la p\u00e9rdida de su [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":48060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[2130],"class_list":["post-48059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-santo-job"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Job y Juan de \u00c1vila<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"La Iglesia celebra el 10 de mayo al santo Job, personaje b\u00edblico de gran paciencia y confianza en Dios, y a san Juan de \u00c1vila.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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