Vela de Jerusalén

St. Salvator of Horta

Salvator of Horta

Feastday: March 18
Death: 1567

Franciscan confessor. Born at Santa Colomba, Gerona, Spain, he was orphaned as a child and became a shoemaker before joining the Franciscans in Barcelona as a lay brother. He worked for many years as a humble cook in the friary of Horta, near Tortosa, dying at the friary of Caliari, Sardinia. During his life, he was known for his many and severe austerities and his miracles. He was canonized in 1938.

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Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God, Blessed on the Stone of Anointing

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