Francisco Olazábal
Mexican evangelist (1886–1937)
Francisco Olazábal (October 12, 1886 – June 1, 1937) was a Mexican Pentecostal evangelist, who conducted an evangelistic healing ministry and founded the Interdenominational Mexican Council of Christian Churches in 1923, later renamed as Latin American Council of Christian Churches or Concilio Latino Americano de Iglesias Cristianas (CLADIC). Francisco Olazábal committed 30 years to his evangelistic healing ministry. Olazábal held healing campaigns across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.
Early life
Olazábal was born on October 12, 1886, in El Venado, Sinaloa, Mexico. His mother, Refugio Velazquez, left Catholicism and converted to Methodism in 1898 in Mazatlán, Mexico. His father, Juan Olazábal, abandoned him and his mother after his mother converted and she became a lay evangelist (SOURCE-lecture notes). Olazabal left his mother in 1902 to travel to San Francisco, California to visit family. At this time Olazábal, through George Montgomery's ministry, rededicated his life to Jesus, and returned to Mexico and to the Methodist Church. In 1911, Francisco Olazábal immigrated to the United States and moved to El Paso, Texas, where he pastored a Spanish-speaking Methodist Church. In 1914, Francisco Olazábal married Macrina Orozco, his childhood sweetheart.
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