How to Pronounce Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas
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Apr 21, 1846 Riobamba, Chimborazo Province, Ecuador Died on 04 May 1897 (aged 51)
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About Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas
- Blessed Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas (21 April 1846 – 4 May 1897) was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic priest and professed member from the Jesuits.
- He served as a teacher in the COPEM college in Riobamba since 1892 and it was there that he was slain during the Liberal Revolution which had started in 1895.
- Moscoso was a noted philosopher and taught rhetoric and grammar to his students while serving as a professor; he also served as the college's rector from 1893 until his assassination.Initiatives to introduce his beatification cause commenced in the late 1990s during celebrations for the first centennial of his death.
- The cause was introduced not long after and he became titled as a Servant of God.
- Pope Francis approved his beatification after confirming that the slain priest had been killed "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith).
- The beatification was celebrated in Riobamba on 16 November 2019.
