St. Pascal - San Juan Bautista, CA
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N 36° 50.755 W 121° 32.172
10S E 630509 N 4078779
This sculpture is located in the church at Mission San Juan Bautista.
Waymark Code: WMRVDN
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/07/2016
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This sculpture is one of six works set behind the main altar at the church at Mission San Juan Bautista. It depicts St. Pascal standing in his clerical garb and holding a large crucifix with his right hand while looking to the heavens.
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"St. Pascal Baylon is known for his charity to the poor and afflicted, and his unfailing courtesy and humility were remarkable even by Franciscan standards.
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"Saint Paschal Baylon (also Pascal or Pascual, 16 May 1540 – 17 May 1592) was a Spanish friar and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the patron saint of Eucharistic congresses and Eucharistic associations.
Life
He was born at Torrehermosa, in the Kingdom of Aragon, on 16 May 1540, on the Feast of Pentecost, called in Spain "the Pasch (or "Passover") of the Holy Ghost", hence the name Paschal. His parents, Martin Baylon and Elizabeth Jubera, were poor peasants. He spent his youth as a shepherd. He would carry a book with him and beg passersby to teach him the alphabet and to read, and as he toiled in the fields he would read religious books.
In around 1564, he joined the Reformed Franciscan Order (Alcantarine Reform) as a lay brother. He chose to live in poor monasteries because, he said, "I was born poor and am resolved to die in poverty and penance." He lived a life of poverty and prayer, even praying while working, for the rest of his life.
He was a mystic and contemplative, and he had frequent ecstatic visions. He would spend the night before the altar in prayer many nights. At the same time, he sought to downplay any glory that might come from this piety. He died on 17 May, which is his current feast day, in 1592."