Comments on: Gabriel García Moreno

By: fr paul francis

fr paul francis — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:10:19 +0000

Thank you for making this edifying article available via the internet.

The details of the assasination of the Archbishop of Quito as rendered here gave brief pause, for how could a chalice have been sacriligiously poisoned with strychnine ON GOOD FRIDAY, when there is no access on that day to the Precious Blood?

So I went running for the old Missal. Sure enough, unconsecrated wine was used in the venerable rite….

This struck me as very interesting, for while the “Mass of the Pre-Sanctified,” as it was/is sometimes known contains no consecrations effecting the Mystical Immolation, the ritual still called for a fractioning of the Host and a particle of It to be dropped into the unconsecrated wine.

“He descended into hell,” is the portion of the Creed I’ve associated for many years in conjunction with this action; perhaps the ancient liturgy meant to preserve precisely that idea – particularly on Good Friday – by its insistence on the use of wine…?

God reward you!

By: Danil

Danil — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:10:36 +0000

“God does not die” This guy rocks, he makes me proud to be Christian.

By: Jessica Garcia

Jessica Garcia — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:24:57 +0000

Hello all,

I have learned in the last few years that I am a direct descendant of Garcia Moreno; this only by reading 20 plus years worth of writings that my grandfather Admiral Alfredo Garcia Drouet left behind when he died in 1963. I am very interested in confirming this and learning more about him. Unfortunately we left Ecuador when I was 6 months old and my father is not close to his family.

Any information will be greatly appreciated.

J Garcia

By: Ferdinand Escario Tauro

Ferdinand Escario Tauro — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:59:59 +0000

Ave Maria!I’m from the Philippines.
I’ve been acquinted with this matryr, Garcia Moreno
by my devotion to Nuestra Senora del Buen Suceso (Our Lady of Good Success).
May someone help me or share some info about his membership in the Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Lourdes or that of Rosary Confraternity. Thank you very much and Mabuhay!

By: Peter N. Nevraumont

Peter N. Nevraumont — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:13:03 +0000

Dear Mr. Cusack,

We are in the process of producing an illustrated book on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the course of research for this book, I came across your website with an illustration of García Moreno consecrating the Republic of Ecuador at the Cathedral of Quito.

We would like to consider this illustration for this new book. Do you remember in which book or other publication you found this illustration?

Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Peter N. Nèvraumont
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By: Rena Boynton Garcia

Rena Boynton Garcia — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:00:51 +0000

Hi Tim,
I am a granddaughter 3 times removed from holy Gabriel Garcia Moreno. My grandfather Victor Manuel Garcia Riofrio was his illegimate son. Please don’t let this throw you, for blood son he was. Remember Saint Augustine had an illigimate son and is a Father of The Catholic Church. My grandfather was conceived between Garcia Moreno’s two wives to a woman he loved in his youth. I have so many beautiful stories passed on from my family I would love to share with you. I am a genealogist and have many of the lineages from our Great President. There is a group in Florida that asks for his intercession and pray for his cannization. My mother died last January at 98 yrs, and has passed on stories that her faher told her about his father, our President.

By: Tim Timmons

Tim Timmons — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:02:41 +0000

Very compelling history of Gabriel Garcia Moreno. The history of my grandfather’s family (Pazmino family from Quito) is tied to Don Gabriel as he is a great-great uncle of mine. I am interested in any facts of this man’s life (as well as any family remaining in Quito), so thank you very much!

By the way, you’ll be interested to know that another of Don Gabriel’s descendants (my grandfather’s nephew) Bob Pazmino, is a prominent Christian educator.

Ciao
Tim Timmons
Winston Salem, NC

By: Santiago Tomás Delacre

Santiago Tomás Delacre — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:17:12 +0000

Dear Mr. Cusack:

I´ve just read the life of Don Gabriel Garcia Moreno (by R.P. Alfonso Berthé). I strongly recomend this book to every catholic. I was deeply impressed by this GREAT CATHOLIC PRESIDENT y envy Ecuador for having him for so many years. I pray to God that here in Argentina, some day, he will give us a poltician al least 10% as catholic and brave as Don Gabril. Deo gratias for the Motu Propio for the Latin Mass. Best regards.

Santiago Tomás Delacre
Buenos Aires, Argentina

By: Mathieu C. Guillory

Mathieu C. Guillory — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:02:43 +0000

Mr. Cusack,

I want to congratulate you on the best English version of the history of Don Gabriel that I have ever read. I live in Quito, Ecuador and am here because of my admiration for the greatest leader in Latin American history. I want to personally invite you to visit us here and allow us to share together our common interest.

Dios No Muere

Mathieu C. Guillory
Quito, Ecaudor

By: Jovan-Marya Weismiller, T.O.Carm.

Jovan-Marya Weismiller, T.O.Carm. — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:30:15 +0000

Thanks, Mr Cusack. I was beginning to think I was the only Catholic in the blogosphere who had ever heard of the Martyr-President of Ecuador!