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Spanish ufologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salvador Freixedo (18 April 1923 – 25 October 2019)[1] was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Jesuit order. A ufologist and researcher of paranormal subjects, he wrote a number of books on the relationship between religion and extraterrestrial beings, and was a speaker in several international UFO congresses in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. He was also a contributor to a number of parascientific magazines, such as Mundo Desconocido (Unknown World),[2] Karma 7 and Más allá (Beyond)[3] among others. He also appeared in a number of TV and radio shows dedicated to these subjects.
Salvador Freixedo | |
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Born | Salvador Freixedo Tabarés 18 April 1923 O Carballiño, Ourense Province, Galicia, Spain |
Died | 25 October 2019 95–96) | (aged
Nationality | Spanish |
Education | Salamanca, Universidad de Comillas, Alma College, Mont Laurier, University of Los Angeles, Fordham University |
Occupation(s) | Ufologist, Parapsychologist, author, priest |
Known for | Ufology, Ancient astronauts, Catholic priest (Jesuit order) |
Spouse | Magdalena del Amo |
Freixedo was born in O Carballiño (Ourense Province, Galicia, Spain), in 1923,[4] into a deeply religious family (his brother was a Jesuit and his sister was a nun). When he was five his family moved to Ourense, and it is there where he started his first studies, attending primary school at the Saint Vincent Paul Nuns and Secondary School at the Institute Otero Pedrayo. At the age of 16 he joined the Jesuit Order and was ordained a priest in 1953, in Santander, Spain. He was a member of the Jesuit Order for thirty years.[5]
He lived in a number of countries in America from 1947. In his role as a Jesuit, he taught History of the Church in the Interdiocese Seminary of Santo Domingo, and he founded the Movement of the Christian Working Youth in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was the national vice-assessor of this movement in La Habana.
He studied[6] humanities in Salamanca, philosophy in Universidad de Comillas (Santander),[4] theology in Alma College in San Francisco (California), ascetics in Mont Laurier (Canada), and psychology in the University of Los Angeles (California) and in Fordham University of New York City.
Since the 1950s, his critical position on the postures of the Catholic Church and the publication of some books led him to jail and to the expulsion from countries like Cuba and Venezuela, and also to his exclusion from the Jesuit Order in 1969.[7][8]
Since the 1970s he had dedicated himself to research in the field of parapsychology, in particular the UFO phenomenon and its relation to religion and human history. He had published a number of books on the subject, and founded the Mexican Institute of Paranormal Studies, of which he presided over the First Great International Congress..[9]
From the time of his falling away with the Order, he dedicated himself to the study of paranormal phenomena, considering it a window to other realities and other dimensions of existence. He has published over thirty books, many discussing a possible relationship between religion and extraterrestrials, such as:
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