Bl. Francisco Gárate Aranguren

Francisco Gárate was born in 1857 near the castle of Loyola in the Basque Country, birthplace of St Ignatius. He became a Jesuit brother, a member of the order who is not a priest.

For forty-two years he was the doorkeeper at the University of Deusto in Bilbao. Students, teachers, workers and visitors passed his desk every day, and all of them remembered his kindness; they called him "Brother Kindness". He said: "I calmly do what I can, and the Lord, who can do everything, does the rest." He died in 1929 and was beatified in 1985.

Francisco Gárate Aranguren was beatified in 1985.

Beatification allows public veneration, usually in a particular region or religious family. Canonization extends it to the whole Church.