Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga (12 October 1899 – 28 April 1976) was a Mexican Catholic priest and theologian sedevacantist. He was associated with the secret society Los TECOS.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Sáenz as a young seminarian in Barcelona, Spain, 1923

Excommunication

In response to Sáenz's excommunication, Father Moisés Carmona, Sáenz's associate and disciple, wrote:

They excommunicated you for your fidelity to Christ, His teachings and His Church. Blessed excommunication! As long as it is for this reason, may all [such] excommunications come upon me![a]

Unión Católica Trento

In the 1970s, Sáenz, together with Carmona and Father Adolfo Zamora, founded the Unión Católica Trento (Tridentine Catholic Union).[6]

Death

In his last testament, written on 25 April 1976, Sáenz wrote:

My life and all that is most precious to me I have sacrificed for Christ, for the Church, and for the Papacy [...].[b]

and he added:

May the last cry of my soul be that of our Mexican martyrs: Long live Christ the King, Long live the Virgin of Guadalupe![c]

He died of prostate cancer, three days after, on 28 April 1976.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ "A usted lo excomulgaron por su fidelidad a Cristo, a sus enseñanzas, a su iglesia. ¡Bendita excomunión! Como sea por eso, que me vengan todas las excomuniones"[5]
  2. ^ "Mi vida y todo lo más precioso que ella pudiera tener para mí la he sacrificado por Cristo, por la Iglesia y por el Papado [...]."[7]
  3. ^ "Que el último suspiro de mi alma sea el de nuestros Mártires mexicanos: Viva Cristo Rey, Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!"[7]

References

  1. ^ Yáñez Delgado, Alfonso (2023-03-14). "Los caminos de la extrema derecha". Enlace Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  2. ^ Sánchez, Francisco (2016-11-19). "La ultraderecha avanza ante la apatía de los jóvenes: Dávila Peralta". Intolerancia Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  3. ^ González, Fernando M (2015). "Jesuitas y laicos: diversas maneras de encarar los "arreglos" de 1929" (PDF). Estudios Jaliscienses 99, Febrero de 2015 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  4. ^ González, Fernando M (2007). "Algunos grupos radicales de izquierda y de derecha con influencia católica en México (1965-1975)" (PDF). Historia y Grafía, núm. 29, 2007, pp. 57-93 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  5. ^ Rius Facius, Antonio (1980). ¡Excomulgado! [Excommunicated! - trajectory and thought of presbyter Dr. Joaquín Sáenz Arriaga]; México: Costa Amic Editores (endnotes are taken from the 1983 edition), p. 155.
  6. ^ Gary L. Ward, Bertil Persson, and Alain Bain, eds., Independent Bishops: An International Directory [Detroit, MI: Apogee Books, 1990].
  7. ^ a b Rius Facius, Antonio (1980). ¡Excomulgado! [Excommunicated! - trajectory and thought of presbyter Dr. Joaquín Sáenz Arriaga]; México: Costa Amic Editores (endnotes are taken from the 1983 edition), p. 185.
  8. ^ Rius Facius, Antonio (1980). ¡Excomulgado! [Excommunicated! - trajectory and thought of presbyter Dr. Joaquín Sáenz Arriaga]; México: Costa Amic Editores (endnotes are taken from the 1983 edition), pp. 180-89.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Saenz_y_Arriaga
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