8.22.2010

Why is Alberto Hurtado so important in Chile?

Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, was borned in Viña del Mar, Chile, on January 22 of 1901, but he is known as Padre Hurtado. He joined to the Company of Jesus in 1923, and became a priest in 1933. He helped young and poor people to get close to the church. But his help and defense to the poor people and workers make that the wealthiest and conservatives places of society and church to label him as a communist priest. But then he founded the "Hogar de Cristo", an institution that collect money for beneficence, and receive needish people. He did two miracles, and the Pope Benedict VI declared him as a Saint in 2005.

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