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Paschal Baylón
Catholic lay brother (b.
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1540, d. 1592)
Paschal Baylón (24 May 1540 – 15 May 1592) was a SpanishRoman Catholiclayprofessed religious of the Order of Friars Minor. He served as a shepherd alongside his father in his childhood and adolescence, but desired to enter the religious life.
He was refused once but later was admitted as a Franciscan lay brother and became noted for his strict austerities, as well as his love for and compassion towards the sick.
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He was sent to Paris, France; on the way he encountered Calvinists and was nearly killed by a mob. He was best known for his strong and deep devotion to the Eucharist.
The process for his canonization opened and in 1618 he was beatified; Pope Alexander VIII canonized him a saint on 16 October 1690.
On 28 November 1897, Pope Leo XIII proclaimed St Paschal Baylón patron of Eucharistic Congresses and Confraternities.[3]
Early life
Paschal Baylón was born on 16 May 1540 at Torrehermosa, in the Ki