Francis Palau y Quer was born on 29th December 1811 at Aytona in Spain.
In 1828, he entered the seminary in Lírida. In 1832, after having
completed three years of philosophy and the first year of theology, he
joined the Discalced Carmelites and made his religious vows the
following year. Forced by the political circumstances of the time to
live as a secular, he was nevertheless ordained priest at Barbastro in
1836. After a long stay in France from 1840 to 1851, he returned to
Spain and gave himself to the apostolate of preaching and missions to
lay Christians, especially in Barcelona and the Balnearic Islands.
During 1860 and 1861, he began organising various groups of women which
later became the present-day Teresian Missionary Carmelite Sisters and
the Missionary Carmelite Sisters. He was also the founder of the
Brothers of Charity, nowadays no longer in existence. He died at
Tarragona on 20th March 1872.
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