living in farms and in other rural locations, though also spent some time in Loyola. He was in Cádiz from 1916 to 1917 before returning to Málaga to continue his work. In 1922 he co-founded the Missionaries of the Rural Parishes, alongside María Isabel González del Valle Sarandeses, whom he had come to know. This organization would be of use to the priest in his unwavering commitment to the moral and cultural wellbeing of the poor with an added emphasis on those who lived in remote and rural areas. Arnaiz also knew the Bishop of Málaga Manuel González García who had praised him for his work and encouraged him to continue it on a grand scale. In June 1926, he fell ill when preaching the novena for the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He suffered from a high fever, and a car was sent for him to take him to his residence where he was confined to bed and soon diagnosed with bronchopneumonia. He died from this a month later, and his remains were interred in the church of the Corazón de Jesús in Málaga after his Jesuit compatriots secured special permission to do so. Beatification Arnaiz's beatification cause commenced under Pope John Paul II on 5 December 1989 after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the official "nihil obstat" and titled him as a Servant of God; the diocesan process took place in the Málaga diocese from 18 March 1990 until its closure later on 23 December 1995. The C.C.S. later validated this in Rome on 23 February 1996 before receiving the Positio dossier in two parts in 2008 and then on 27 April 2010. Historians first approved this cause on 3 June 2008 as did theologians sometime later while the C.C.S. also approved it on 4 October 2016. On 10 October 2016 he was proclaimed to be Venerable after Pope Francis confirmed that the late Jesuit priest had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue. The miracle required for his beatification was investigated in Málaga and concerned the mid-1990s cure of a man who had been in a coma for a week and was on the verge of death; he likewise suffered from a cardiorespiratory arrest. The C.C.S. validated this process too prior to a medical panel approving that science could not explain the healing on 15 December 2016. Theologians also approved this miracle later on