Saint Turibius of Mogroveio
- Also known as
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Turibius de Mongrovejo
Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo
Turribius Alphonsus Mogrobejo
- Memorial
- 23 March
- Profile
- Nobility.
Lawyer.
Professor of law at Salamanca.
Ordained in 1578 at age 40.
Judge of the Court of the Inquisition at Granada.
Archbishop of Lima, Peru on 15 May 1579.
Founded the first seminary in the Western hemisphere.
Fought for the rights of the natives against the Spanish masters.
Organized councils and synods in the New World.
- Born
- 1538 at Mayorga de Campos, Leon, Spain
- Died
- 23 May 1606 at Santa, Peru of natural causes
- Beatified
- 2 July 1679 by Pope Innocent XI
- Canonized
- 10 December 1726
- Patronage
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Latin American bishops
native rights
Peru
- Prayers
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- Additional Information
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Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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