Félix Varela Morales
Cuban priest, philosopher and teacher who died in exile in Florida
Who they were
He taught philosophy and physics at the Havana seminary, represented Cuba in the Spanish Cortes, and spent his last decades as a priest in New York and Florida. santiebeati.it gives his year of death as 1953, which is a slip for 1853.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Havana archdiocese opened the diocesan inquiry into his cause on 21 January 1996.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.