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Alphonse of the Sacred Heart of Mary (Alphonse Arimany Ferrer)

Alphonse was born in Balaguer (Lleida) the 19 May of 1905. He was baptized on the 25th and it goes confirmed on the 11th November of 1908. He was the smallest of fifteen brothers. In 1916 he entered the Minor Seminar of the Barefoot Carmelites in Barcelona. In August of 1920 he entered in the noviciate, professing on 28 August of 1921. He studied Philosophy in Badalona and Theology in Barcelona. On the 10th October of 1926 he traveled to the Mont Carmel (Saintly Land) to participate in the foreign missions and on the 15th April of 1928 he received the priestly ordering of hands of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Back in their Province 1929, he taught To the Minor Seminar of Palafrugell and in 1933 the provincial Board|Piece of Advice nominated suprior of Badalona and teacher of students to him, profession that exercised in 1936, when on 20 July, he took refuge in a tower of the neighborhood of the Bonanova of Barcelona with another priest. On 23 September of 1936 the P. Alfons went stopped in an inn of the Portal of the Angel, in company of two brothers Marists and a Piarist. They were driven in the Post|Square of the Holy Family, where the Committee had he headquarters. They recognized his condition of monks and they came off confined in the cells of the convicted persons to death. On the following day, 24 September, he was taken out together with other six prisoners more and it goes tortured in unknown place. he was 31 years old. Beatified by the Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins on the 28th November of 2007 in the Square from Sant Pere in Rome