The Mondragon Corporation based out of the Basque Country in the region of Spain and France, was founded by a Catholic priest, Father José María Arizmendiarrieta, who seems to have been influenced by the same Catholic social and economic teachings that inspired Belloc, Chesterton, McNabb and the other founders of distributism.

However, writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father José Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, said in 2008 that intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.

* In El crimen del Padre Amaro ( The Crime of Father Amaro ) ( 2002 ), a Mexican film ( script by Vicente Leñero, based on the homonymous novel written in 1875 by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz ) about a sexual relationship between a priest and a girl, father Amaro recites it to his lover during their nocturnal meetings.

* June 11 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran Father, National Hero, and founder of Autonomus National University of Honduras ( d. 1855 )

* September 20 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran Father, National Hero, and founder of Autonomus National University of Honduras ( b. 1797 )

* José Ignacio Barraquer ( 1916 – 1998 ) ( Spain ) " Father of modern refractive surgery ".

* Father José Francisco de Paula Señan ( 1812 – 1815 )

* Father José Bernardo Sánchez ( 1827 – 1831 )

* Father José Joaquin Jimeno ( 1838 – 1844 )

Entombed at the foot of the altar are the remains of eight Franciscan priests ( listed in order of interment ): Father Miguel Sánchez, Father Antonio Cruzado, Father Francisco Dumetz, Father Roman Ulibarri, Father Joaquin P. Nuez, Father Gerónimo Boscana, Father José Bernardo Sánchez, and Father Blas Ordaz.

The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu ( a companion of Father Junipero Serra ), both members of the de Anza Expedition, which had been charged with bringing Spanish settlers to Alta ( upper ) California, and evangelizing the local Natives, the Ohlone.

Father José Barona and Father Boscana oversaw the construction of a small infirmary ( hospital ) building ( located just outside the northwestern corner of the quadrangle ) in 1814, " for the convenience of the sick.

The final inventory for Mission San Juan Capistrano was compiled by Father José Maria de Zalvidea and four of the commissioners, and included:

Father José Maria Zalvidea left San Juan Capistrano on or about November 25, 1842, when Mission San Luis Rey de Francia's Father Ibarra died, leaving the Mission without a resident priest for the first time ( Zalvidea had been the Mission's sole priest ever since the death of Father Josef Barona in 1831.

In Cangoxima, the first place Father Master Francisco stopped at, there were a good number of Christians, although there was no one there to teach them ; the shortage of laborers prevented the whole kingdom from becoming Christian.

The glorification of Father Herman was performed on August 9, 1970, at Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak, Alaska by the OCA with parallel services at the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady, Joy of all who Sorrow in San Francisco by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ( ROCOR ).

* 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.

* September 25 – Mission Santa Cruz is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 12th mission in the California mission chain.

* October 9 – Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 13th mission in the California mission chain.

* December 8 – Mission La Purisima Concepcion is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 11 mission in the California mission chain.

* December 4 – Mission Santa Barbara is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 10th mission in the California mission chain.

Meanwhile, Blackie's childhood friend, Roman Catholic Father Tim Mullen ( Spencer Tracy ), keeps trying to reform him, while the other nightclub owners attempt to convince Norton to run for the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors in order to protect their crooked interests.

In 1861, Father Francisco João de Azevedo, a Brazilian priest, made his own typewriter with basic materials and tools, such as wood and knives.

Having fulfilled his mission from the Viceroy, he continued on with Father Pedro Font and a party of twelve others exploring north and found the first overland route to San Francisco Bay.

Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén took up Serra's work and established nine more mission sites, from 1786 through 1798 ; others established the last three compounds, along with at least five asistencias ( mission assistance outposts ).

* Father Francisco Palóu ( presidente pro tempore ) ( 1784 – 1785 )

* Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén ( 1785 – 1803 )

* Father Vicente Francisco de Sarría ( 1823 – 1824 )

Francesco Lana de Terzi, a 17th century Jesuit professor of physics and mathematics from Brescia, Lombardy, has been referred to as the Father of Aeronautics.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is considered the " Father of Modern Chemistry ".

Charles Marie de La Condamine, seven months later, was able to give to the Académie française an account of Father Roman's voyage, and thus confirm the existence of this waterway, first reported by Father Acuña in 1639.

Golb argues that the primary research on the Qumran documents and ruins ( by Father Roland de Vaux, from the École Biblique et Archéologique de Jérusalem ) lacked scientific method, and drew wrong conclusions that comfortably entered the academic canon.

In 1533 he was allowed to accompany Dom Martinho de Portugal to Rome on an embassy to Pope Clement VII, to whom Father Álvares delivered the letter Lebna Dengel had written to the Pope.

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Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( 1950 ), Raymond Briggs's Father Christmas ( 1973 ) and the translation from French of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar and Father Christmas ( originally Babar et le père Noël, 1941 ).

* 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

* 26 March-Michael Dudok de Wit wins an Academy Award ( Short film / animated ) for Father and Daughter

The arrival of Father Pedro Fernández de la Torre on April 2, 1556, as the first bishop of Asunción marked the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay.

* 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.

* June 3 – Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777 – 1822, United Mexican States 1824 – 1846, until the California Republic.

* January 15 – After overwintering with the Huron Indians, Samuel de Champlain and Recollect Father Joseph Le Caron visit the Petun and Ottawa Indians of the Great Lakes.

* July 16 – Father Junípero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions.