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Father Mario de Jesús Guevara Calero, 66, spiritual director of the La Purísima Archdiocesan Major Seminary in Nicaragua, died on Sunday, Oct. 12, according to the Archdiocese of Managua.
Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, archbishop of Managua, and the priests of the Nicaraguan capital “send their condolences to his family, the seminary community, and the parishioners he served for years in various parishes of our archdiocese,” a death notice from the archdiocese said.
On Dec. 5, 2018, while the priest was hearing confessions in the Managua cathedral, he was splashed with acid on his face and body by Russian citizen Elis Leonidovna Gonn, who was later arrested.
The priest required various surgeries and treatments and, according to the newspaper Confidencial, forgave the woman who attacked him. The incident occurred in the year the dictatorship ramped up the repression against the Catholic Church in the country.
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Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, archbishop of Managua, and the priests of the Nicaraguan capital “send their condolences to his family, the seminary community, and the parishioners he served for years in various parishes of our archdiocese,” a death notice from the archdiocese said.
On Dec. 5, 2018, while the priest was hearing confessions in the Managua cathedral, he was splashed with acid on his face and body by Russian citizen Elis Leonidovna Gonn, who was later arrested.
The priest required various surgeries and treatments and, according to the newspaper Confidencial, forgave the woman who attacked him. The incident occurred in the year the dictatorship ramped up the repression against the Catholic Church in the country.
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Priest who was attacked with acid in Nicaragua cathedral in 2018 dies
Father Mario de Jesús Guevara Calero, 66, spiritual director of the La Purísima Archdiocesan Major Seminary, died on Sunday, Oct. 12.
