Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga

Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga (12 October 1899 – 28 April 1976) was a Mexican Catholic priest and theologian sedevacantist.

Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga
Orders
Ordination	30 de Abril de 1930 by Por Francisco Orozco e Jiménez, templo de São Felipe de jesus. Cidade do México
Personal details
Born	12 October 1899 Morélia Mexico
Died	28 April 1976 (aged 76) cidade do Mexico
Buried	Panteón Francés de la Piedad
Nationality	Mexicano
Parents	Rafael Sáenz y Arriaga, Madalena burga de Sáenz
Profession	Theologian
Education	Theology
Alma mater	Universidade gregoriana, Roma.

Biography

Sáenz as a young seminarian in Barcelona, Spain, 1923

Excommunication

In response to Sáenz's excommunication, Father Moisés Carmona, Sáenz's associate and disciple, wrote:

They excommunicated you for your fidelity to Christ, His teachings and His Church. Blessed excommunication! As long as it is for this reason, may all [such] excommunications come upon me!^[a]

Unión Católica Trento

In the 1970s, Sáenz, together with Carmona and Father Adolfo Zamora, founded the Unión Católica Trento (Tridentine Catholic Union).^[2]

Death

In his last testament, written on 25 April 1976, Sáenz wrote:

My life and all that is most precious to me I have sacrificed for Christ, for the Church, and for the Papacy [...].^[b]

and he added:

May the last cry of my soul be that of our Mexican martyrs: Long live Christ the King, Long live the Virgin of Guadalupe!^[c]

He died of prostate cancer, three days after, on 28 April 1976.^[4]

Notes

1. "A usted lo excomulgaron por su fidelidad a Cristo, a sus enseñanzas, a su iglesia. ¡Bendita excomunión! Como sea por eso, que me vengan todas las excomuniones"^[1]
2. "Mi vida y todo lo más precioso que ella pudiera tener para mí la he sacrificado por Cristo, por la Iglesia y por el Papado [...]."^[3]
3. "Que el último suspiro de mi alma sea el de nuestros Mártires mexicanos: Viva Cristo Rey, Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!"^[3]

References

1. Rius Facius, Antonio (1980). ¡Excomulgado! [Excommunicated! - trajectory and thought of presbyter Dr. Joaquín Sáenz Arriaga]; México: Costa Amic Editores (endnotes are taken from the 1983 edition), p. 155.
2. Gary L. Ward, Bertil Persson, and Alain Bain, eds., Independent Bishops: An International Directory [Detroit, MI: Apogee Books, 1990].
3. Rius Facius, Antonio (1980). ¡Excomulgado! [Excommunicated! - trajectory and thought of presbyter Dr. Joaquín Sáenz Arriaga]; México: Costa Amic Editores (endnotes are taken from the 1983 edition), p. 185.
4. Rius Facius, Antonio (1980). ¡Excomulgado! [Excommunicated! - trajectory and thought of presbyter Dr. Joaquín Sáenz Arriaga]; México: Costa Amic Editores (endnotes are taken from the 1983 edition), pp. 180-89.