Nueva vida cesareo gabarain biography

Cesáreo Gabaráin (16 May 1936 – 30 April 1991) was a Spanish Catholic priest and composer of liturgical songs such as Pescador de hombres (Fisher of Men). He received a Gold Record award in Spain, and his music is well known and sung by English- and Spanish-speaking people. Gabaráin became a hymn-writer when he was thirty and went on to write about five hundred songs. He tried to write songs that were easy to learn and be sung by the entire congregation. His hymns have cited as supportive in moments of personal and communal prayer and praise to God,^[1] but were sullied by credible published reports that Gabaráin sexually abused schoolboys in the 1970s.

Life

Cesáreo Gabaráin was born in Hernani (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country) in 1936, shortly before the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In addition to music, from 1946 to 1952 he studied at the minor seminary in Zaragoza, then at the major seminary in San Sebastián. He was ordained a priest