Joseph Oriol was born on 23 November 1650, he studied at the
University of Barcelona, and received his doctorate in
theological studies on 1 August 1674. He was
ordained as a
priest on 30 May 1676. He visited
Rome in 1686, and was granted a
benefice in the church of
Santa Maria del Pi in Barcelona, at the behest of
Pope Innocent XI. Wanting to experience
martyrdom, he went to Rome in April 1698 to offer himself for the foreign missions, but he fell sick at
Marseille and returned to Barcelona. He was said to have prophetic and miraculous powers; the dying, the
blind, the
deaf and dumb, the
lame, and the
paralytic, were said to be instantly cured by him. He was buried in the
Santa Maria del Pi Church in
Barcelona. ==Veneration==