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![[Beati Alfonso De Maneses e Dionisio de Vilaregut]](http://saints.sqpn.com/wp-content/gallery/beati-alfonso-de-maneses-e-dionisio-de-vilaregut/beati-alfonso-de-maneses-e-dionisio-de-vilaregut.jpg "jpg detail of an antique Italian holy card of Beati Alfonso De Maneses e Dionisio de Vilaregut; swiped with permission from the Santini Imagini web site")
Also known as
- Dionysius de Vilaregut
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Born to the nobility. Mercedarian monk at the convent of San Eulalia, Montpellier, France. Exceptionally pious, even for a man in religious life. In 1239 he worked with Blessed Alfonso de Meneses to rescue prisoners in the cities of Jativa and Granada; together they freed 316 people held as slaves by the Moors.
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- La Órden redentora de la merced, by José Antonio Garí y Siumell
- Santi e Beati
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Dionisio de Vilaregut”. Saints.SQPN.com. 3 May 2010. Web. 25 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-dionisio-de-vilaregut/>