Ángel Riesco Carbajo
Roman Catholic bishop
The Vatican record
- 5 July 2019 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2019)
Who they were
Ángel Riesco Carbajo (9 July 1902 – 2 July 1972) was a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate who served as a bishop in the Pamplona archdiocese and was the founder of the Misioneras Apostólicas de la Caridad. Riesco spent some time in Argentina as an emigrant before he returned to his homeland for a scholarship that saw his ecclesial studies spent in Madrid and Santander. He served as a parish priest following his ordination and in 1957 in Astorga founded a religious congregation dedicated to women. Months later he became a bishop but retired a decade later due to poor health that he later died from not long after.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Connected on this site
- Laura Pérez Sánchez Servant of God“Pérez joined the Apostolic Missionaries of Charity in 1957, days after the institute was founded by Ángel Riesco Carbajo, and worked among the poor of twenty-nine villages around La Vega del Bollo.” — this site's research
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q64734416 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ángel Riesco Carbajo (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.