Rafael Arnáiz Barón (9 April 1911 Burgos Spain – 26 April 1938 Dueñas Palencia Spain) is a Spanish saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a Trappist conventual oblate at the time of his death and he is considered one of the greatest mystics of the 20th century.Arnáiz known in the monastery as Brother María Rafael was born on 9 April 1911 in the city of Burgos in north-central Spain. He was the first of four sons born to a well-to-do deeply Catholic family.
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