José Luis Carreño, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Missionary and college founder
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About José Luis Carreño
- José Luis Carreño Etxeandía S.
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- (Spain, 23 October 1905 - 29 May 1986) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest.He was pioneering missionary in India and the Philippines, founder of the premier Indian institution Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur, Vellore District,[1] and a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
- He was also a poet, musician and writer, with a special interest in the Shroud of Turin (see Bibliography below).
- He has been called the most loved Salesian in South India, at least in the first part of the twentieth century.
- Pascual Chavez Villanueva, Rector Major of the Salesians, speaks of him as "the great missionary of India and of the Philippines in the footsteps of St Francis Xavier".
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