Blessed Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí y Moreno
Patron of Mercedarian Sisters of Charity
Feast day: March 17
1831 – 1905
Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí Moreno was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Mercedarian Sisters of Charity (1878). Moreno was ordained as a priest in 1855 and was accused of misconduct in 1888 and the Holy See ordered him to leave the congregation as an investigation took place; he was vindicated in 1894.
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