Between valleys and mountains, in a land of cool afternoons and scorching hot summers where a thousand landscapes are interwoven, a profound religiosity and rich wine tasting, the figure behind Argentina’s Gettysburg’s Address will be declared blessed this weekend. The appointment is set for mid-morning Saturday in Piedra Blanca in the northwestern state of Catamarca, birthplace of Fray Mamerto Esquiú in 1826. He first donned the traditional brown habit of the Franciscans at the age of five, when, having fallen seriously ill, his mother made him a small cassock and promised she’d always dress him with it asking God for his healing.
Author of Argentina’s Gettysburg address to be beatified | Crux Now
Author of Argentina’s Gettysburg address to be beatified | Crux Now
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