as a priest in 1562. De Bono soon became known for his virtue and strict compliance with the Rule of Life of the Order. He was available to all the people of the neighborhood which he knew thoroughly. He was present to comfort his parents in their final hours, his mother dying on 29 April 1583, and his father a year later. He was soon named Master of novices for the Catalan Province of the Order, being responsible for the founding of a Minim monastery in Barcelona. He was elected to serve as Vicar Provincial. At the insistence of the Archbishop of Valencia, Juan de Ribera (now honored as a saint), in 1602 he was elected Corrector Provincial (regional superior) of Valencia. He is said to have remained humble and austere; retaining his devotions and customs, and continued to be noted for his prudence and charity throughout his life. De Bono died in Valencia on 14 July 1604, at the age of 74. His remains were first entombed in the Church of San Sebastián, to which the monastery was attached. After the suppression of the monastery under the Napoleonic rule of Spain, the urn containing his bones was moved in 1835 to the Church of San Nicolás, where he had been baptized as a baby, and enshrined under the altar of the Chapel of St. Raphael. Veneration De Bono was beatified by Pope Pius VI on 10 September 1786. His eulogy is written in the Roman Martyrology for 14 July: At Valencia in Spain, Blessed Gaspar de Bono, a priest of the Order of Minims, who left the arms of the prince of the world for the militia of Christ the King and for the sake of the house of ' Order in the Spanish province, who ruled with prudence and charity. Each year, on the 14 July, small celebrations are held in De Bono's honor at the Impasse of Cañete in the Carmen neighborhood, the street where he was born. References External sources Félix Puimayor y Budar. Compendio histórico de la vida del beato Gaspar de Bono, del Orden de Mínimos. Valencia: por Joseph Estevan, 1787. 1530 births 1604 deaths People from Valencia Spanish soldiers Minims (religious order) 16th-century Spanish Roman Catholic priests 17th-century Spanish Roman Catholic priests Burials in Valencia Spanish beatified people