He was born in Niquitao, Trujillo State on 8-27-1848 and died in Rome, Italy, on 5-6-1905. Priest and educator. Son of José Mateo Jáuregui and Carmela de la Natividad Moreno.
Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Mucuchíes, where Jesús Manuel attended primary education at a local school. He began Latin studies under the direction of his relative, the priest Pedro Pérez Moreno, at whose side he remained until the age of 20 (1868).
Father Pérez, aware of the young Jáuregui’s vocation, took him to Mérida to present him to the bishop, Monsignor Juan Hilario Bosset, who granted him permission to wear an ecclesiastical habit, lodged him in his palace and personally took care of imparting greater knowledge of theology to him. and philosophy. On November 19, 1871, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Bosset and later appointed priest of the Milla parish in Mérida.
In 1873, he was transferred to the curate of Mucuchíes, also in charge of the parishes of Torondoy, San José de Pocó and the village of San Cristóbal. During this time he intensified his studies of physical and natural sciences, history and literature. He became fluent in English and French, as well as Latin and Greek. He undertook the construction of the temple of Mucuchíes, the church of San Cristóbal and began the construction of those of Palmira and Torondoy. Likewise, he took care of the projection of a road between Mucuchíes and Bobures that would allow easy and quick communication for commercial exchange with Maracaibo. To this end, he obtained help from the state Legislature and the national government.
In 1876 he was elected deputy to the Merida regional Legislature for the Rangel district and in 1879 he was a deputy to the National Congress for the state of Guzmán. The ecclesiastical hierarchy appointed him foreign vicar of La Grita in 1883. Upon taking office, he put into practice the old idea of founding an educational institute in that town. His effort became a reality on January 1, 1884 when he inaugurated the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús de La Grita school, which today bears the name of Liceo Jáuregui. Also in this city his work was notable in founding asylums, schools for girls, hospitals, as well as carrying out the construction and repair of churches. In the company of Monsignor Román Lovera, bishop of Mérida, he traveled to Europe in 1885, for several months. He visited Pope Leo XIII and in Turin, he learned about the organization, operation and methods of the Salesian institutes that would later allow him to improve the pedagogical system of his school in La Grita.
The National Congress, by legislative act of 1886, authorized him to read the triennium of philosophy in his school and grant his students a bachelor’s degree. Previously, Monsignor Zerpa, governor of the bishopric, had granted permission for students with a priestly vocation to wear a cassock and do their theological studies at the school. The teaching provided at the Sagrado Corazón de La Grita school allowed the formation of an entire generation of great influence in Venezuela at the beginning of the 20th century.
Monsignor Jáuregui remained as rector of the La Grita school until 1899, when the revolution led by Cipriano Castro commissioned him to manage an armistice with the government of General Ignacio Andrade. The Levite did not agree with the management, since he was rather in favor of a capitulation on the part of Castro, as expressed in a letter dated July 23, 1899. From that moment, the relations of good friendship between Castro and Jáuregui were broken. In May 1900, Monsignor Jáuregui was arrested when he was heading to Rome on a mission from the bishop of Mérida for the Holy Year jubilee and sent to the castle of San Carlos; released (4-8-1900), he was expelled from the country.
Residing in Rome, Jáuregui was appointed preacher for a pilgrimage of Mexican bishops and priests headed to Jerusalem and whom he accompanied on their journey through the Holy Land. Returning to Rome, he moved to Paris where he founded the congregation of priests of the Good Shepherd, destined to help and ensure the faith of prelates who have abandoned their spiritual duties.
Shortly after, the French government expelled the religious congregations, so Monsignor Jáuregui traveled to Mexico. There he taught theology at the Seminary and was appointed provisor and vicar general of the bishopric of Huajuapan, a position he held until February 1904, when he returned to Rome where he died.
Text taken from the Dictionary of Venezuelan History of the Polar Foundation. Volume II. Caracas 1997. Biography written by Omar Alberto Pérez.
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