Born in Fresnedo (Spain) on November 18, 1864.
Died in Chiavari (Genoa) on 23 July 1940.
He wore the Franciscan habit in the college of Compostela in 1881 and was ordained a priest on June 15, 1889. Of a mild, peaceful and modest nature, he taught philosophy for several years and was a great supporter and spreader of Scotism. Sent to Rome, where he remained for a good forty-three years, he was first secretary general of the missions and then secretary general of the Order, rector of the church of S. Pietro in Montorio and consultor of the congregations of the Rites, Seminaries and the University of Studies and of the Religious, taking care for the latter of the drafting, correction and adaptation of the constitutions of numerous female congregations, including those of the Poor Clares. Always impartial and objective in his judgments, he was sought out as a confessor by various cardinals and by the students of the Pontifical Spanish College.
On March 29, 1917, Father Fernández García presented to the Congregation of Religious his largely favorable vote for the definitive approval of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, emphasizing "the splendid certificates" received from the ordinaries in the face of some observations made by Cardinal . *Basilio Pompilj, vicar of Rome, by the bishop of Ceneda, *Rodolfo Caroli, and the apostolic administrator of Lugano, *Alfredo Peri Morosini.
Sources:
"Acts of the Order of Friars Minor", 1940, To the Clear Waters of Florence, From the Typography of the College of St. Bonaventure, pp. 274-275.
«Bulletin of the Roman clergy», 1940, p. 128.
Guanellian sources:
Archive of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, C/47.
BRUNO CAPPARONI, The papal approval of the Guanellian congregations: difficulties and positive results (1898-1935), in The Constitutions and Regulations of Don Luigi Guanella. Historical and thematic approaches, edited by Alejandro Dieguez, Rome, Nuove Frontiere Editrice, 1998, p. 150.
Photographs:
JOSÉ LUIS SOTO PÉREZ, A century of literary history. 1862-1962, The Franciscan Echo, 1969.