Introduction

Biography

Cosidó went to live in Bor­deaux, France, where he ac­cept­ed Christ at the end of 1857, through the Se­vil­lian ev­an­gel­ist Man­uel Pin­to.

In 1858, as an agent of the French Bi­ble So­ci­ety, he was trans­ferred to the Par­is Com­mit­tee, where he con­tin­ued work­ing to spread the Gos­pel. That led him to travel to the south of France, reach­ing the Ar­an Vall­ey.

Helped by the So­ci­eté Bíb­lique Pro­tes­tante and the So­ci­eté Ev­an­gél­ique, he de­vot­ed his drive and ef­fort to the dis­sem­in­ation of the Bi­ble, us­ing the Rei­na-Va­le­ra ver­sion and non-Ca­tho­lic trans­la­tions.

Before the Re­vo­lu­tion he went to work in Mad­rid, and af­ter the Re­vo­lu­tion be­gan co­op­erat­ing with Will­iam Gould of the As­sem­blies of Bro­thers.

His great love of writ­ing po­et­ry led him to write hymns that are still well known in church­es to­day.

In 1870, Co­si­dó was in Bar­ce­lo­na for a month when a yel­low fe­ver epi­de­mic caused ha­voc among the po­pu­la­tion. Af­ter preach­ing in the church of Bar­ce­lo­ne­ta, he went to Va­len­cia to start new work.

On the way, he stayed a few days with his fa­mi­ly in Tor­to­sa, where he be­gan to no­tice the symp­toms of the di­sease. He was quar­an­tined, but died short­ly there­af­ter.