Salvador Freixedo

Salvador Freixedo (18 April 1923 – 25 October 2019) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Jesuit order. A ufologist and researcher of paranormal subjects, he wrote a number of books on the relationship between religion and extraterrestrial beings, and was a speaker in several international UFO congresses in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. He was also a contributor to a number of parascientific magazines, such as Mundo Desconocido (Unknown World), Karma 7 and Más allá (Beyond) among others. He also appeared in a number of TV and radio shows dedicated to these subjects.

Biography Freixedo was born in O Carballiño (Ourense Province, Galicia, Spain), in 1923, into a deeply religious family (his brother was a Jesuit and his sister was a nun). When he was five his family moved to Ourense, and it is there where he started his first studies, attending primary school at the Saint Vincent Paul Nuns and Secondary School at the Institute Otero Pedrayo. At the age of 16 he joined the Jesuit Order and was ordained a priest in 1953, in Santander, Spain. He was a member of the Jesuit Order for thirty years.

He lived in a number of countries in America from 1947. In his role as a Jesuit, he taught History of the Church in the Interdiocese Seminary of Santo Domingo, and he founded the Movement of the Christian Working Youth in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was the national vice-assessor of this movement in La Habana.

He studied humanities in Salamanca, philosophy in Universidad de Comillas (Santander),

Since the 1970s he had dedicated himself to research in the field of parapsychology, in particular the UFO phenomenon and its relation to religion and human history. He had published a number of books on the subject, and founded the Mexican Institute of Paranormal Studies, of which he presided over the First Great International Congress..

Literary works

1950 to 1970 In 1957 while he was in Cuba, he wrote his first book: 40 Cases of Social Injustice. Due to pressure from the Batista government he was transferred to Puerto Rico in 1958. In Spain his book was banned. In 1970 his book Love, Sex, Courtship, Marriage, Children: Five Realities in Evolution (Religious myths in human relations) surfaced in Venezuela. He was jailed and subsequently expelled from the country. (Spanish: A Galician Called Christopher Columbus, rediscoverer of America) La Expaña de Z (2010) (Spanish: The Xpain of Z) Teovnilogía: El origen del mal en el mundo (2012) (Spanish: Theoufology, the root of evil in the world)