Fernando Rielo - biography, career, poetry
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Fernando Rielo (August 28, 1923—December 6, 2004), was a mystical poet, philosopher, author, metaphysician, and Founder of a Catholic Religious Institute. Rielo also founded a school of thought and a foundation based on a new metaphyics. His metaphysics is called the Genetic metaphysics of Fernando Rielo and the foundation is called the Fernando Rielo Foundation. The foundation awards the Fernando Rielo World Prize for Mystical Poetry annually. The religious congregation founded by Rielo is called the Idente Missionaries of Christ the Redeemer. The Idente Missionaries were founded in 1959 on the island of Tenerife, Spain. Fernando is an author of many books and works, mostly in Spanish and being translated into other languages, including English.
Fernando Rielo was born on 28th August, 1923 in Madrid, to his father, Enrique and his mother, Pilar Pardal. He was keenly interested in drawing during his childhood years. When he entered adolescence, the Spanish Civil War broke out, affecting people in many Spanish cities, including Madrid. Fernando once stood before a firing squad during the war, when he was receiving his First Holy Communion. The leader of the squad asked him to renounce his faith, but Fernando refused. However, the leader finally decided not to order his men to shoot Fernando.
On his sixteenth birthday, Fernando had an experience that was to shape the rest of his life. He felt, that as he walked in the woods in the early morning at a scout camp in Valsain, near Segovia, that the Heavenly Father spoke to him and told him, "Be holy, my son, as I am holy". He understood from this experience, that he was called to live a life of sanctity.
Fernando Rielo was interested in reading Philosophical works, including Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Fernando developed a keen interest in art, reading the Argentine cultural journal, Billiken. His father encouraged him to read several Oriental Classics too. During these years, he studied for the Spanish Civil Service examination and performed well in it, securing a high grade. He then found employment as an Administrator and went to Granada for work. There he met and fell in love with a young woman.
Renouncing marriage
Fernando’s ideal was to marry and form a family. According to the upbringing of his time, he wanted to father a child so that he could say: "You are blood of my blood and now spirit of my spirit." However, once during this time, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, where he went to pray and meditate, he received a locution of our Heavenly Father saying to him - "Son, I would be pleased if you renounced marriage". At that time, Fernando did not understand what he was to do in his life, if not to be married. Yet, he wanted to please the Father and so told the young woman that they could not marry.
Motus Christi
Fernando wanted to study further and wanted to apply to the Central University of Madrid (now the University of Madrid). He intended to study Philosophy and Letters and become a professor at the University. However, as the Heavenly Father revealed to him, he went to a church and met a Redemptorist priest. He then decided to join the Redemptorist seminary of Nava Del Ray. During his priestly studies, he liked to encourage his fellow students in preparation for their future missions. He began a movement called Motus Christi (the movement of Christ) to revive their spiritual life.
Profession
Providence, however, had other plans for Fernando, and he could not remiain in the Redemptorist Insititute, which he loved with all his being. When he completed his ecclesastical studies, a number of coiniciding events occurred as a result of which he could not receive priestly ordination. Fernando had shared his work on the Christus movement with the General Superior, who was a Belgian, who was pleased with the movement. However, the General would not remain alive for long, and succumbed to cancer of the pancreas. Fernando made his public profession during this period.
Fernando then consulted a highly respected professor about his situation. The professor had a doctorate in Sacred Scripture from the Biblical Institute in Rome. He told Fernando after three days of prayer to leave the congregation because Heaven had given a special spirit which the congregation did not recognize. Fernando had to place himself completely in the hands of Divine Providence during these years because of the turn of events, and because of the words of this professor, which were quite different from what he expected. He remained with the Redemptorists till 1956. During the Christmas that that year, he read the text loud before several witness, indicating that his profession would be immutable. Around the same time, he received a vision of a ring held up by two angels.
Tenerife
Fernando had to finally leave the Redemptorists and as he did so, Christ asked him to found Him a religious Institute. Fernando did not wish to do this, because he considered himself incapable of such a task, and because of the history of suffering which religious founders had been through, beginning with Saint Alphonsus Ligouri. Yet, eventually, he would complete this task, which was to be a painful journey for him.
Fernando, after leaving the Redemptorist house, continued with his professional life. He was sent to the island of Tenerife, in the Canary islands to work actively as a Government employee. He arrived in Tenerife on January 6th, 1957. Christ told him on his way along the old road, La Cuesta, that this island was to be his cross and his glory. After two years, and much pain and hard work, Fernando founded the Institute, in obedience to Christ. On June 29th, 1959, the official statutes were presented to Most Rev. Domingo Pérez Cáceres, the Bishop of the Diocese.
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