Fr. Aloysius Ellacuria was a Claretian mystic, with a reputation as a miracle worker in California.
Basque born, he joined the Claretian Fathers at the early age of eleven and was ordained to the priesthood at 24 years of age. Shortly afterwards, he was sent to America, where he was professor of Greek and Latin and helped in the spiritual formation of seminary students.
Several miracles are attributed to this Claretian priest. Holding a great compassion for the sick, Father Aloysius prayed for example for Cardinal Rigali's own mother, who had cancer several decades ago who then recovered following treatment.
Anthony Riaza of Murrieta, who was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 5, and given only three months to live.
After Father Aloysius and his guilds prayed "non-stop" for Riaza and the priest offered Masses to him, the boy and his family were told by a baffled doctor following two weeks of tests that he could leave the hospital. In another incident, Riaza's mother broke and paralyzed her hand in a freak accident and reluctantly asked the priest for his prayers. "Right in front of our eyes she got almost complete movement back in her hand and she couldn't stop crying from happiness," Riaza wrote in the affidavit.
Kenneth M. Fisher of Anaheim recalls seeing his late nephew's "crooked arm" straighten before his very eyes while the teen was being blessed by Father Aloysius in Fountain Valley. He also recalls seeing an elderly woman fall backward during a pilgrimage in Italy in the late 1960's or early 1970's and hit her head on the edge of the cement step after the group had visited another mystic there. "I thought, 'Oh my God, she's very seriously injured or dead,"'. But after Father Aloysius and the other mystic blessed her, "she came to, got up and continued with the rest of us on the pilgrimage. She never even had a headache."
Those who knew Father Aloysius personally describe him as a humble man with a quiet intensity who always credited God for his many gifts. A petition to open the cause for beatification and canonization of Father Ellacuria has been submitted to Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez. His, is the most visited grave at the San Gabriel Mission.
Basque born, he joined the Claretian Fathers at the early age of eleven and was ordained to the priesthood at 24 years of age. Shortly afterwards, he was sent to America, where he was professor of Greek and Latin and helped in the spiritual formation of seminary students.
Several miracles are attributed to this Claretian priest. Holding a great compassion for the sick, Father Aloysius prayed for example for Cardinal Rigali's own mother, who had cancer several decades ago who then recovered following treatment.
Anthony Riaza of Murrieta, who was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 5, and given only three months to live.
After Father Aloysius and his guilds prayed "non-stop" for Riaza and the priest offered Masses to him, the boy and his family were told by a baffled doctor following two weeks of tests that he could leave the hospital. In another incident, Riaza's mother broke and paralyzed her hand in a freak accident and reluctantly asked the priest for his prayers. "Right in front of our eyes she got almost complete movement back in her hand and she couldn't stop crying from happiness," Riaza wrote in the affidavit.
Kenneth M. Fisher of Anaheim recalls seeing his late nephew's "crooked arm" straighten before his very eyes while the teen was being blessed by Father Aloysius in Fountain Valley. He also recalls seeing an elderly woman fall backward during a pilgrimage in Italy in the late 1960's or early 1970's and hit her head on the edge of the cement step after the group had visited another mystic there. "I thought, 'Oh my God, she's very seriously injured or dead,"'. But after Father Aloysius and the other mystic blessed her, "she came to, got up and continued with the rest of us on the pilgrimage. She never even had a headache."
Those who knew Father Aloysius personally describe him as a humble man with a quiet intensity who always credited God for his many gifts. A petition to open the cause for beatification and canonization of Father Ellacuria has been submitted to Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez. His, is the most visited grave at the San Gabriel Mission.
Fr. Aloysius Ellacuria was a Claretian mystic, with a reputation as a miracle worker in California.
Basque born, he joined the Claretian Fathers at the early age of eleven and was ordained to the priesthood at 24 years of age. Shortly afterwards, he was sent to America, where he was professor of Greek and Latin and helped in the spiritual formation of seminary students.
Several miracles are attributed to this Claretian priest. Holding a great compassion for the sick, Father Aloysius prayed for example for Cardinal Rigali's own mother, who had cancer several decades ago who then recovered following treatment.
Anthony Riaza of Murrieta, who was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 5, and given only three months to live.
After Father Aloysius and his guilds prayed "non-stop" for Riaza and the priest offered Masses to him, the boy and his family were told by a baffled doctor following two weeks of tests that he could leave the hospital. In another incident, Riaza's mother broke and paralyzed her hand in a freak accident and reluctantly asked the priest for his prayers. "Right in front of our eyes she got almost complete movement back in her hand and she couldn't stop crying from happiness," Riaza wrote in the affidavit.
Kenneth M. Fisher of Anaheim recalls seeing his late nephew's "crooked arm" straighten before his very eyes while the teen was being blessed by Father Aloysius in Fountain Valley. He also recalls seeing an elderly woman fall backward during a pilgrimage in Italy in the late 1960's or early 1970's and hit her head on the edge of the cement step after the group had visited another mystic there. "I thought, 'Oh my God, she's very seriously injured or dead,"'. But after Father Aloysius and the other mystic blessed her, "she came to, got up and continued with the rest of us on the pilgrimage. She never even had a headache."
Those who knew Father Aloysius personally describe him as a humble man with a quiet intensity who always credited God for his many gifts. A petition to open the cause for beatification and canonization of Father Ellacuria has been submitted to Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez. His, is the most visited grave at the San Gabriel Mission.
Basque born, he joined the Claretian Fathers at the early age of eleven and was ordained to the priesthood at 24 years of age. Shortly afterwards, he was sent to America, where he was professor of Greek and Latin and helped in the spiritual formation of seminary students.
Several miracles are attributed to this Claretian priest. Holding a great compassion for the sick, Father Aloysius prayed for example for Cardinal Rigali's own mother, who had cancer several decades ago who then recovered following treatment.
Anthony Riaza of Murrieta, who was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 5, and given only three months to live.
After Father Aloysius and his guilds prayed "non-stop" for Riaza and the priest offered Masses to him, the boy and his family were told by a baffled doctor following two weeks of tests that he could leave the hospital. In another incident, Riaza's mother broke and paralyzed her hand in a freak accident and reluctantly asked the priest for his prayers. "Right in front of our eyes she got almost complete movement back in her hand and she couldn't stop crying from happiness," Riaza wrote in the affidavit.
Kenneth M. Fisher of Anaheim recalls seeing his late nephew's "crooked arm" straighten before his very eyes while the teen was being blessed by Father Aloysius in Fountain Valley. He also recalls seeing an elderly woman fall backward during a pilgrimage in Italy in the late 1960's or early 1970's and hit her head on the edge of the cement step after the group had visited another mystic there. "I thought, 'Oh my God, she's very seriously injured or dead,"'. But after Father Aloysius and the other mystic blessed her, "she came to, got up and continued with the rest of us on the pilgrimage. She never even had a headache."
Those who knew Father Aloysius personally describe him as a humble man with a quiet intensity who always credited God for his many gifts. A petition to open the cause for beatification and canonization of Father Ellacuria has been submitted to Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez. His, is the most visited grave at the San Gabriel Mission.
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