Francisco Gaínza Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	The Most Reverend
Francisco Gaínza
Bishop Of:	See of Caceres
Province:	Camarines Sur
Enthroned:	March 1862
Ended:	31 July 1879 (Died)
Predecessor:	Manuel Grijalvo y Mínguez
Successor:	Casimiro Herrero y Pérez
Birth Date:	June 3, 1818
Birth Place:	Logroño, Spain
Religion:	Roman Catholic

Francisco Caracciolo Urreta Visayas de Gainza (3 June 1818 – 31 July 1879)^[1] was the 25th bishop of the Diocese of Nueva Cáceres. He was born in the city of Calahorra, in the province of Logroño, Spain.

He studied in the Philippines and lived in Manila. In Manila he was a professor at the Colegio of Santo Tomas. Gaínza and his friend, Father Pedro Peláez from Laguna, were leaders of the secularization movement, seeking reforms within the Catholic Church to respect the rights of the secular clergy, who were mostly natives, in parishes.^{[2] [3]} Together with Peláez, they founded in 1861 El Católico Filipino, the first Catholic newspaper in the Philippines.^{[4] [3]}

In March 1862, Gaínza was appointed the bishop of the Diocese of Nueva Cáceres. After Peláez's death from the 3 June 1863 earthquake, Gaínza dispelled rumors of Peláez's unfulfilled plans of rebellion against Spain.^[5]

On September 1, 1864, Gainza initiated the Traslación Procession on the Friday before the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary, where the image was brought from the Our Lady of Peñafrancia Shrine to the cathedral for a solemn novena, starting the Peñafrancia festival.^[6]

Books and publications

• An simbahan can satong Señora nin Peña de Francia sa ciudad nin Nueva Caceres sa caporoan na Filipinas an Gñaran, (Printed, 1867)
• Estatutos del seminario conciliar de nueva cáceres : reglamento de asistencias á la Santa Catedral, (Printed, 1865)
• Memoria y antecedentes sobre las espediciones de Balanguingui y Joló,
• Milagros y novena de la Santísima Virgen del Rosario, patrona universal de las Islas Filipinas, que se venera in el Templo de Santo Domingo de Manila
• Memoria sobre Neuva Vizcaya, (Printed, 1849)
• Estatutos para la Escuela-Colegio de Santa Isabel de la ciudad de Nueva Cáceres, (Printed, 1865)
• Novena nin sacratisima Virgen del Cármen Maria santísma ina nin Dios asin cagu-rangnan niato ...
• Gramática latina para uso de la juventud filipina por el exemo. é iliom, (Printed,1873)
• Milagros de la Santísima Vírgen del Rosario : patrona universal de las Islas Filipinas que se venera en el Templo de Santo Domingo de Manila
• Informe sobre La Aclimatacion De La Pimienta en la Isla De Bzlabac, (Printed,1858)
• Instrucción pastoral sobre negociación prohibida a los eclesiásticos de Ultramar, (Printed, 1864)
• Carta pastoral que el Ilmo. y Rmo. Sr. Dr. D. Fr. Francisco Gainza, del Sagrado Orden de Predicadores, Obispo de Nueva Cáceres, dirige a sus muy amados diocesanos con motivo de su consagración, (Printed, 1863)
• Últimas noticias de la misiones españolas del Tunkin : estractadas [sic] de la correspondencia, recibida de los S.S. Vicarios Apostólicos, Vicarios Provinciales y Misioneros Dominicos...(Printed, 1860)
• Casaysayan can mahal na pasion Jesucristo cagurangnanta, na sucat ipaglaad nin pusó nin siisay nan na magbasa, ipinabicol nin Samong Amang mamomóton na Fr. Francisco Gainza (Printed, 1868)
• Facultades de los obispos de ultramar : su origen, naturaleza y extensión, seguidas de dos disertaciones sobre esponsales, matrimonios y dispensas matrimoniales, y de una instrucción pastoral sobre negociación prohibida, (Printed, 1877)
• Últimas noticias de la misiones españolas del Tunkin : estractadas [sic] de la correspondencia, recibida de los S.S. Vicarios Apostólicos, Vicarios Provinciales y Misioneros Dominicos...(Printed, 1860)

References

• Bikol Annals. Domingo Abella. 1954. p. 171-180.
• "The Diocesan Seminary". Sarong artikulo sinurat ni Agapito Sacristan,C.M., Rector, na nagluwas sa Peñafrancia Official Souvenir Program (Sept. 1941).
• An retrato niya sinapi' sa libro ni Abella na Bikol Annals asin pinadakula sa kompyuter.

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy.com Website http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgainz.html

Notes and References

1. Web site: Metropolitan Archdiocese of Caceres . gcatholic.org.
2. Flores. Albert. Pedro Peláez' "Brebes Apuntes Sobre la cuestion de Curatos de Filipinas:" A Transcription. Landas. 2007. 21. 1. 1. March 23, 2020.
3. Andrés. Roberto Blanco. Pedro Peláez, Leader of the Filipino Clergy. Philippine Studies. 2010. 58. March 23, 2020. Ateneo de Manila University. Renán Prado. Filomeno Aguilar.
4. Romanillos. Emmanuel Luis. Barrot. Leander. Fr. Pedro Pelaez's Unpublished Letters. Quærens. December 2016. 11. 2. 11. March 23, 2020. Recoletos School of Theology, Inc.. Quezon City, Philippines.
5. Book: Schumacher, John. Revolutionary Clergy: The Filipino Clergy and the Nationalist Movement, 1850–1903. 1998. Ateneo de Manila University Press. Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines. 971-550-121-4. 11. 3rd. March 23, 2020.
6. https://www.archdioceseofcaceres.org/pe%C3%B1afrancia-history "History of the Devotion to Our Lady of Peñafrancia", Archdiocese of Caceres