Francisco Coll Guitart [SEP] religious order
Francisco Coll Guitart
Saint Francisco Coll Guitart (Francesc Coll i Guitart in Catalan), 18 May 1812 – 2 April 1875) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Order) and founded the Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
He was beatified on 29 April 1979 and canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 11 October 2009.
Life.
Francisco Coll Guitart was born in Gombrèn (Ripoll) in 1812 as the tenth and last son of a
Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin
The Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin (, , acronym D.A.) are a religious institute of pontificial right.
This congregation was established on 16 August 1856 at Vic, Catalonia, by the Dominican friar Francisco Coll Guitart (who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009).
They are present in Europe (France, Italy and Spain), Africa (Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Rwanda), in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile