Juan García López-Rico [SEP] religious order
Juan García López-Rico
Saint Juan García López-Rico (10 July 1561 – 14 February 1613) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest from the Trinitarian Order who would establish a branch of his order which he named the Order of Discalced Carmelites. Later in his life he assumed the name of "John Baptist of the Conception".
He made it his mission to renew his order and he became known as a great reformer of the aims and structure of his order which he had applied to the new one that
he established. He was also a prolific writer on theological matters.
He was beatified in 1819 and was canonized in 1975.
Life.
Juan García López-Rico was born as the fifth of eight children in 1561 to Xixón and Isabel García Marcos López-Rico. He had eight siblings and three of his siblings entered into religious life. His religious calling manifested when he was fifteen.
At the age of fifteen he met Teresa of Avila - future saint. This awakened in him a calling to the