Josep Manyanet i Vives

Catalan priest

Josep Manyanet i Vives (7 January 1833 – 17 December 1901) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Sons of the Holy Family and the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family.

He served in a range of capacities as a parish priest before establishing both religious orders in order to spread devotion to the Holy Family to whom he fostered an intense devotion.

The sainthood cause commenced under Pope Pius XII on 25 November 1956 - in which he was titled as a Servant of God - while Pope John Paul II named him as Venerable in 1982.

The same pope beatified him on his trip to Paris in 1984 and later canonized him as a saint in mid-2004 in Saint Peter's Square.