Nectario Maria Pratlong Bonicell Gal dating history

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Nectario Maria Pratlong Bonicell Gal (28 October 1888 – 3 October 1986), born as Louis Alfred Silvano Pratlong Bonicell Gal, was a Venezuelan religious brother of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He was noted as an educator, historian, cartographer, archaeologist, paleontologist and geographer. Having spent much of his adult life in Venezuela as part of his activities with the Christian Brothers, he was the author of study works about the history and geography of the nation which became the educational standard in schools throughout the country. A devoted Mariologist, he was associated with promoting two causes in particular, that of Our Lady of Coromoto, Patroness of Venezuela and also that of Our Lady of Palmar in Spain, a series of apparitions to which he was personally a witness.