Fr. NICETO BLÁZQUEZ FERNÁNDEZ, O.P., MASTER IN THEOLOGY

On August 3, 2022, our brother Niceto Blazquez died in Ávila.

BORN on October 1, 1937 in Venta del Obispo, municipality of San Martín del Pimpollar, province of ÁVILA (Spain).

STUDIES in the public school of Hoyocasero, Ávila, and the schools of La Mejorada, Valladolid, Santa María de Nieva, Segovia and Arcas Reales, Valladolid.

Philosophy with Bachelor's and Doctorate in the Centers of the Dominican Order in Ávila, Madrid, and Rome and LECTOR (Licentiate) in Theology in the Centers of the Dominican Order in Madrid, Ávila, and Valencia.

He was ORDAINED a PRIEST on June 30, 1963, in the School of Our Lady of the Rosary in Valladolid by H. E. Mons. Teodoro LABRADOR FRAILE, O.P. Archbishop of Foochow, China.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY from the University of Santo Tomás in Rome in 1968.

DIPLOMA IN MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY (B.O.E, 22/X/1971).

DOCTOR IN PHILOSOPHY AND LETTERS from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1975.

He received the title of MASTER IN SACRED THEOLOGY on March 2, 1998.

He spent most of his life in the Convent of San Pedro Martin where in addition to being a teacher he was an organist for many years with his brother Pelegrin.

He was a MEMBER of the Spanish Society of Philosophy. CO-FOUNDER of SITA in Spain. ADVISOR of RADIO POPULAR (Cadena COPE). ADVISOR to the Library of Christian Authors (BAC). Circumstantial consultant of the Episcopal Commission for the doctrine of the faith of the Spanish Episcopal Conference and collaborator of the Media Commission.

HONORARY COLLABORATOR of "History of Philosophy" at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.

HIRED ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of "Law and Deontology of Information". PROFESSOR IN CHARGE OF THE COURSE OF "Law and Deontology of Information" at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of "Journalism III" at the same University.

DIRECTOR of the Pontifical Institute of Philosophy of Madrid, for two trienniums.

PRESIDENT of the Pontifical Institutes of Philosophy and Theology "Santo Tomás", in Madrid,

He completed COMPLEMENTARY HIGHER STUDIES in Italy, France, England, and Romania and was a "Research Member" of the Institute of Bioethics of the Health Sciences Foundation in Madrid.

He was also a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Concepción (Chile) and Librarian of the Library of the Dominican Fathers of S. Pedro Mártir de Madrid.

As a researcher and popularizer, it is worth highlighting in his numerous writings an initial stage focused on the thought of St. Augustine. This stage was reflected in the work entitled Introduction to the philosophy of St. Augustine, which appeared in 1984. His incorporation into the Complutense University of Madrid meant the closure of this stage and the beginning of another focused on the ethics of the media and reflected in the works Ethics and media, and The new ethics in the media. Since 1971 his great concern was the subject of human life as can be seen in the works: Fundamental Bioethics; Bioethics, the new science of life; Bioethics and the children of the future, and later Bioethics and Biothanasia.

Another issue that grabbed his attention as an object of research was the use of reason. He was convinced that many personal and social problems could at least be attenuated if people learned to use this faculty specific to human beings. In his work The Use of Reason, he spoke extensively of this problem as a personal experience of the study and teaching of philosophy throughout his life.

Fr. PEDRO GONZALEZ TEJERO O.P.

He was born in Velilla de Tarilonte (Palencia) on August 30, 1920.

He studied in the Dominican schools of Our Lady in the Mejorada in Olmedo and in Ocaña from 1932-1936; in ST. Joseph and ST. Mary of Nieva from 1939-1940.

He made the novitiate in the convent of ST. Thomas in Avila from 1940-1941.

He studied institutional studies in ST. Thomas in Avila from 1941-1945 and in the Dominican House of River Forest, Ilinois, USA, from 1945-1947 where he was ordained a priest in 1947. There he also did the electorate in Theology and Master of Arts in 1948 and complementary studies in Education at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC from 1948-1949. Professor at San Juan de Letran, Manila, from 1949-1954; Prior of the Convent of Santo Domingo of Quezon City from 1954-1957; Teacher of students in ST. Peter Martir, Madrid, and in ST. Thomas, Avila, from 1958-1967; Prior of the Convent of St. Dominic in Ocaña from 1967-1970; Vicar Provincial of the Vicariate of the Holy Rosary Province in the Philippines from 1978-1982; Director of the Binondo postulancy, Manila, from 1983-1985 and superior from 1983-1985; Profesor in UST, Manila, since 1979 and spiritual director of the UST Central Seminary, Manila, from 1990-2013.

Lately, he was in the Convent of Santo Tomas of UST, Manila, and given his age of 102, he had become almost blind and deaf. A brother who always lived for the Order and who accompanied many young brothers in the process of formation. 

May the Lord have you in glory.