page_title: Félix de Jesús Rougier
section_title: Missionary work
hierarchical_section_title: Félix de Jesús Rougier / Missionary work
caption_attribution_description: English: Fr. Felix as a missionary in Colombia
context_page_description: Fr. Felix of Jesus Rougier was a Catholic priest and founder of several institutes of consecrated life who was declared venerable in the year 2000.
context_section_description: Fr. Felix’s dream was to be a missionary in Oceania, but initially his journey there was suspended due to the illness in the arm.  His superiors sent him to Colombia where he developed an extensive educational effort and faced the challenges of the Thousand Days' War.  He conducted a national ministry collecting food and delivering it to the hungry. Also, he devoted himself to accompanying the soldiers in their last hours and times of illness. He risked his life during the war to hear confessions and attend to the wounded, once even defending the cloak on a corpse that would have been desecrated by the man’s enemies.
  In February 1902, Fr. Felix went to Mexico where, on February 4, 1903, he met the Venerable Servant of God Concepción Cabrera de Armida.  She, without knowing anything about him, began to talk to him in Confession about certain things that only Father Felix could have known himself.  Mrs. Armida, called “Conchita” had various mystical graces. She then spoke to him about the Works of the Cross which she had founded, causing Fr. Felix to immediately have a great love and respect for her. Soon, Conchita announced that God wanted him to be the founder of the Fifth Work of the Cross, the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit.  After asking advice from his superiors, he accepted her invitation.
caption: During his years in Colombia
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