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Julio César Duarte Ortellado

Paraguayan diocesan priest, builder of the Ybycuí hospital and of a home for orphans

Servant of GodFull write-upParaguay
Born
12 April 1906
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Died
4 July 1943
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Beatified
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not yet
Canonised
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not yet

Who they were

He built the hospital at Ybycuí and the Hogar San José for orphaned children, and died of typhus caught while visiting a sick soldier.

The miracles

No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.

Why that counted as sanctity

Declared a Servant of God by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 2013; Bishop Celestino Ocampo of Carapeguá opened the diocesan inquiry into his cause of beatification in July 2020.

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.

A miracle approved by the Holy See is needed for the next step. If you know the postulation’s own page, tell us and it will be added here.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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