Overview
- Regional Catholic calendars for Monday, March 23, 2026 commemorate Saint José Oriol.
- Born in Barcelona, he became a priest and educator noted for prayer, humility, and guidance of youth.
- Accounts say Pope Innocent XI granted him a benefice at Santa María del Pino following a visit to Rome.
- He embraced severe penance, including daily fasting and abstaining from meat, while caring for the ill and offering spiritual counsel.
- Reports also recount an accusation of rigorism with a temporary loss and later restoration of his license to hear confessions, and they record his death in 1702.