José Galamba de Oliveira

José Galamba de Oliveira (4 February 1903 – 25 September 1984) was a Portuguese Catholic priest, teacher, and historian of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima.

Biography José Galamba de Oliveira was born in Aldeia-Nova, Olival, in Ourém, in 1903, the son of José Joaquim de Oliveira and Cecília da Conceição Galamba, both merchants.

He did his primary schooling in Olival, then entered the Patriarchal Seminary in Santarém in 1914. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, achieving a doctorate in Philosophy in 1922 and a bachelor's degree in Theology and Canon Law, He returned to Portugal for his health in 1924, and finished his theological studies in 1926 at the Leiria Seminary. He was ordained priest in the Cathedral of Leiria on 11 July 1926, celebrating his First Mass in the Sanctuary of Fátima on 13 July.

He taught at the Seminary and other schools in Leiria. He was active in the Acção Católica movement, scouting, and in the regional press. He was the founder of the weekly religious newspaper A Voz do Domingo (1933), writing about the mission of the Church, the defense of Christian values and principles and other topics. In 1943, he was appointed Canon of the Cathedral of Leiria, and Monsignor in 1983. He died on 25 September 1984, at the age of 81, in Marrazes, Leiria.

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