Ambrosio de Valencina

Ambrose de Valencina (Valencina de la Concepción, Seville, November 5, 1859 - Seville, May 24, 1914) was a Spanish friar and writer belonging to the religious order of the Capuchin Fathers.

Biography

Little is known of his youth except that he worked in the field until his entry into the Novitiate of the Capuchin Fathers. He restored the Capuchin Order in Andalusia after the Exclaustration or Confiscation of Mendizabal. In 1900 he founded the magazine El Adalid Seraphic that is still published today. He preached in Madrid and before King Alfonso XIII the Sermon of the Seven Words and it is believed that some Spiritual Exercises before Pope Pius X and the College of Cardinals. He died on May 24, 1914 and is buried in the Capuchin Convent in Seville. In 2014 the centenary of his death was celebrated. Work

He was a prolific writer, author of several books, most religious subject.

He traveled as a missionary to Oceania from which he also left his written testimony.

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