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Birth of Enric d'Ossó

Vinebre, Ribera d'Ebre, Tarragona

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Birth of Enric d'Ossó

Historical milestone · Vinebre, Ribera d'Ebre, Tarragona

Enric d'Ossó i Cervelló was born in Vinebre on 16 October 1840, the son of well-off farmers, and died in Gilet (Camp de Morvedre) in 1896. After his mother's death in 1854 he decided to pursue an ecclesiastical career: he entered the seminary of Tortosa and was ordained a priest in 1867, later working as a teacher at the same seminary. In 1873 he founded the Association of Daughters of Mary Immaculate and Saint Teresa of Jesus, and on 23 June 1876 he founded in Tarragona the Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus —the Teresians—, a congregation devoted to the education of girls, approved by the Holy See in 1888; that same year he commissioned Antoni Gaudí to build the Teresianas College in Barcelona as the mother house of the order. He was canonised in 1993 and his birth house is preserved as a place to visit in the old quarter of Vinebre.

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