Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí Moreno
Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí Moreno (11 October 1831 - 17 March 1905) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Mercedarian Sisters of Charity (1878). Moreno was ordained as a priest in 1855 and was accused of misconduct in 1888 and the Holy See ordered him to leave the congregation as an investigation took place; he was vindicated in 1894.
Pope John Paul II presided over Moreno's beatification on 9 November 2003.
Patron saint of Mercedarian Sisters of Charity
In the Martyrology
- March 17 Blessed Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí y Moreno, priest, founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy