Josep Tous Soler
Spanish catholic priest (1811–1871)
Feast: 27 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Josep Tous y Soler was born at Igualada near Barcelona on 31 March 1811 into a large, solidly Christian family. Drawn by the Franciscan ideal, he became a Capuchin as Brother Ildefonso and was ordained on 24 May 1834.
In a time of upheaval, with friaries suppressed and burned, friars expelled and priests killed, he founded the Capuchin Sisters of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd.
The miracles
A miracle was presented for his beatification; the biography does not describe it.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Capuchin who founded a work of hope amid the persecution of the Church in Spain.
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
- María Ana Mogas Fontcuberta Blessed“Mogas Fontcuberta was in a Capuchin congregation before establishing her own order and was under the guidance of Josep Tous Soler.” — Wikipedia
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Giuseppe da Igualada
- Wikidata Q3810166 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Josep Tous (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.