John Baptist of the Conception

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The story is told of the visit of St. Teresa of Avila to John’s boyhood home and of her greeting to him and her prophecy to his mother that he would be a reformer. </div> <bR> <div> John studied philosophy with the Discalced Carmelites in his hometown and theology at the universities in Baeza and Toledo. It was in Toledo that John García entered the Trinitarian Order in 1580, making his lifetime religious profession the year following his novitiate. </div> <bR> <div> He was a man admired for his outstanding virtue, mortification and prayerfulness. In time, after his ordination to the priesthood, John was made official preacher first at La Guardia and then at Seville. </div> <bR> <div> The 1594 Interprovincial Chapter of the Order in Spain passed a series of Statutes, one of which provided for the establishment of houses for a renewed and stricter observance of the Trinitarian way of life. The Spanish Recollection was thus born. </div> <bR> <div> John Baptist Rico, as he was then known, was made minister of the newly founded house in Valdepeñas. His love for God and self-effacement enabled him to overcome opposition, sometimes quite harsh, to the reform of the Trinitarian Order. He thought of his work as the restoration of the “primitive” observance more than a reform. </div> <bR> <div> Travelling to Rome in the fall of 1597 and arriving there in mid-March of 1598, John Baptist was successful in his attempt to receive papal support for his reform efforts. On 20 August 1599, Clement VIII issued his letter of approbation for the Spanish Discalced Trinitarians. Returning to Spain and enjoying the support of King Philip III and others, John was likewise successful in spreading this Trinitarian reform, both among recruits from the professed membership of the Order in Spain and then among new candidates to this movement. He himself made many significant foundations and was elected the first Minister Provincial of the Spanish Discalced Trinitarians. </div> <bR> <div> In the 1630s, this reform movement was granted independence from the ancient observance of the Order and the right to elect its own Minister General. Then, in the centuries which followed, the Spanish Discalced observance spread not only in Europe but into Africa and the Americas. </div> <bR> <div> John Baptist of the Conception was a gifted mystic and spiritual writer. His work fills nine manuscript volumes which are conserved in the archives of the Trinitarian house of San Carlino in Rome. He died on 14 February 1613 in the Trinitarian house of Córdoba, which he founded. His relics continue to be venerated there today. Beatified by Pius VII in 1819, John Baptist of the Conception was canonized by Paul VI on 25 May 1975. His feast is celebrated on 14 February, the day of his death. Interestingly, St. John Baptist of the Conception’s death occurred during the year of the 400th anniversary of the death of St. John de Matha, founder of the Trinitarian Order. </div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>