Father Angel María Rojas: Did the last Jesuit just die?
Father Angel María Rojas passed away on the afternoon of December 22.
He was born in Burgos, Spain, on 15 September 1940 and baptised the following day. An only child, he was brought up in a very Catholic family.
On his 17th birthday, Rojas entered the Jesuits, with his parents satisfied that "they had given God what they most desired." His father, a lawyer by profession, would have loved that his son would have followed in his footsteps.
Rojas suffered from poor health and struggled with insomnia and migraines. In 1975, he founded the Prayer Groups of the Heart of Jesus, with the aim of helping young people and later whole families to have access to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius.
His motto was 'To love and to make people love the Heart of Jesus from the Immaculate Heart of Mary'. More than 100 vocations resulted from his work.
From the Prayer Groups arose in 2003 a consecrated branch, the Apostles of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. They have their headquarters in Getafe Diocese.
Rojas was an indefatigable fighter under the slogan "always more and better, for the Kingdom of Christ."
He was born in Burgos, Spain, on 15 September 1940 and baptised the following day. An only child, he was brought up in a very Catholic family.
On his 17th birthday, Rojas entered the Jesuits, with his parents satisfied that "they had given God what they most desired." His father, a lawyer by profession, would have loved that his son would have followed in his footsteps.
Rojas suffered from poor health and struggled with insomnia and migraines. In 1975, he founded the Prayer Groups of the Heart of Jesus, with the aim of helping young people and later whole families to have access to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius.
His motto was 'To love and to make people love the Heart of Jesus from the Immaculate Heart of Mary'. More than 100 vocations resulted from his work.
From the Prayer Groups arose in 2003 a consecrated branch, the Apostles of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. They have their headquarters in Getafe Diocese.
Rojas was an indefatigable fighter under the slogan "always more and better, for the Kingdom of Christ."