Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí Moreno (11 October 1831 - 17 March 1905) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Mercedarian Sisters of Charity (1878).
[1][5][6] His siblings were: Juan felt a call to the priesthood during his childhood and he commenced his studies to become a priest at the San Dionisio seminary in Granada.
[3][4][5] Moreno was embroiled in a scandal in 1888 when the religious of his order accused him of misconduct and it resulted in a decree from the Holy See on 7 July 1888 demanding he leave and keep his distance from the congregation.
[1][4] An extensive investigation followed in which Moreno kept silent and adhered to the orders of his superiors until a decree from the Holy See on 15 July 1894 vindicated him of all false allegations.
Moreno was declared to be Venerable on 20 December 2001 after Pope John Paul II recognized that he had lived a life of heroic virtue.
validation in Rome on 12 February 1993 which allowed for a team of medical experts to approve the miracle in a meeting on 18 April 2002 and for theologians to follow suit on 18 October 2002.