Saint John of Avila, Apostle of Andalusia was a Spanish apostolic preacher, author, mystic and saint, canonized in 1970. Known in Spanish as San Juan de Ávila. Saint John of Avila was of Jewish converso descent. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Salamanca to study law but returned after a year to his father's home, where he spent the next three years in the practice of austere piety.

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  • Saint John of Avila, Apostle of Andalusia was a Spanish apostolic preacher, author, mystic and saint, canonized in 1970. Known in Spanish as San Juan de Ávila. Saint John of Avila was of Jewish converso descent. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Salamanca to study law but returned after a year to his father's home, where he spent the next three years in the practice of austere piety. His sanctity impressed a Franciscan journeying through Almodóvar, on whose advice he took up the study of philosophy and theology at Alcalá, where he was fortunate to have as his teacher the famous Dominican Domingo de Soto. While he was a student his parents died and after his ordination he celebrated his first mass in the church where they were buried, sold the family property and gave the proceeds to the poor. He saw in the severing of natural ties a vocation to foreign missionary work and prepared to go to Mexico. In 1527, while he was in Seville looking for a favorable opportunity to set out for his new field of labour, his unusually great devotion in celebrating mass attracted the attention of Hernando de Contreras, a priest of Seville, who mentioned him to the archbishop and general inquisitor, Don Alphonso Manrique. The archbishop saw in the young missionary a powerful instrument to stir up the faith in Andalusia, and after considerable persuasion Juan was induced to abandon his journey to America. His first sermon was preached on 22 July 1529, and immediately established his reputation; crowds thereafter packed the churches at all his sermons. At Seville he was brought before the inquisitor and charged with exaggerating the dangers of wealth and closing the gates of heaven to the rich. His innocence of the charges was quickly proved, and by special invitation of the court he was appointed to preach the sermon on the next great feast in the church of San Salvador, in Seville. Like other Spanish mystics of the period, including La Beata de Piedrahita, he was suspected several times during his career of belonging to the Alumbrados, deemed a heretical sect. He began his career as apostolic preacher of Andalusia, aged thirty. After nine years he returned to Seville, only to depart for the wider fields of Cordova, Granada, Baeza, Montilla and Zafra. For eighteen years before his death he was the victim of constant illness, the result of the hardships of his apostolate of forty years. He was declared Venerable by Pope Clement XIII on 8 February 1799 and beatified by Pope Leo XIII on 12 November 1893. In 1970 he was canonised by Pope Paul VI. Among the disciples attracted by his preaching and saintly reputation were Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint John of God, Saint Francis Borgia and the Venerable Louis of Granada. Saint John of Avila's works were collected at Madrid in 1618, 1757, 1792 and 1805; a French translation by d'Andilly was published at Paris in 1673; and a German translation by Schermer in six volumes was issued at Regensburg between 1856 and 1881. His best-known works are the "Audi Fili" (English translation, 1620), one of the best tracts on Christian perfection, and his "Spiritual Letters" (English translation, 1631, reprinted London 1904) to his disciples.
  • Alonso de Ávila, auch Johannes von Avila war ein Prediger und Autor mehrere Schriften, in denen er sich mit der Verehrung der Altarsakramente, Fragen der Erziehung und mit dem Zölibat befasste. Er wurde 1894 selig und am 31. Mai 1970 heilig gesprochen. Er trägt den Beinamen Apostel von Andalusien.
  • Sant Joan d'Àvila (Almodóvar del Campo, 6 de gener de 1500-Montilla, 10 de maig de 1569) va ser un presbíter espanyol, gran predicador i escriptor místic, canonitzat per Pau VI el 1970. És conegut com a "Apòstol d'Andalusia" i n'és el sant patró.
  • San Juan de Ávila, escritor ascético y religioso español.
  • De heilige Johannes van Avila was een bekende Andalusische prediker die vooral bekend is geworden omdat hij de biechtvader was van een aantal heiligen: Theresia van Avila, Franciscus Borgia en Johannes de Deo. Door zijn meeslepende predikaties wist hij in Andalusië een gelovig reveil op gang te brengen. Zijn relieken bevinden zich in Montilla. Johannes van Avila is heiligverklaard in 1970. Zijn feestdag wordt gevierd op 10 mei.
  • Jan z Ávili, hiszp. Juan de Ávila – święty katolicki, kapłan, mistyk asceta, franciszkański kaznodzieja, teolog, nazywany apostołem Andaluzji.
  • São João de Ávila, escritor ascético e sacerdote católico espanhol.
  • Святой Иоанн Авильский — испанский католический святой, писатель и проповедник.
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  • Saint John of Avila, Apostle of Andalusia was a Spanish apostolic preacher, author, mystic and saint, canonized in 1970. Known in Spanish as San Juan de Ávila. Saint John of Avila was of Jewish converso descent. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Salamanca to study law but returned after a year to his father's home, where he spent the next three years in the practice of austere piety.
  • Alonso de Ávila, auch Johannes von Avila war ein Prediger und Autor mehrere Schriften, in denen er sich mit der Verehrung der Altarsakramente, Fragen der Erziehung und mit dem Zölibat befasste. Er wurde 1894 selig und am 31. Mai 1970 heilig gesprochen. Er trägt den Beinamen Apostel von Andalusien.
  • Sant Joan d'Àvila (Almodóvar del Campo, 6 de gener de 1500-Montilla, 10 de maig de 1569) va ser un presbíter espanyol, gran predicador i escriptor místic, canonitzat per Pau VI el 1970. És conegut com a "Apòstol d'Andalusia" i n'és el sant patró.
  • San Juan de Ávila, escritor ascético y religioso español.
  • De heilige Johannes van Avila was een bekende Andalusische prediker die vooral bekend is geworden omdat hij de biechtvader was van een aantal heiligen: Theresia van Avila, Franciscus Borgia en Johannes de Deo. Door zijn meeslepende predikaties wist hij in Andalusië een gelovig reveil op gang te brengen. Zijn relieken bevinden zich in Montilla. Johannes van Avila is heiligverklaard in 1970. Zijn feestdag wordt gevierd op 10 mei.
  • Jan z Ávili, hiszp. Juan de Ávila – święty katolicki, kapłan, mistyk asceta, franciszkański kaznodzieja, teolog, nazywany apostołem Andaluzji.
  • São João de Ávila, escritor ascético e sacerdote católico espanhol.
  • Святой Иоанн Авильский — испанский католический святой, писатель и проповедник.
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