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Catholic lay brother (b. 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.

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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. 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