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Ernesto Cardenal

Died in 2020

Ernesto Cardenal was born on 20 January 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. He studied literature in Mexico City and then in New York, took part in 1954 in a plot against Somoza and then entered the Trappists of Gethsemani, in Kentucky, where Thomas Merton was his novice master. Ordained a priest in 1965, he founded a peasant community in the Solentiname archipelago. Sandinista Minister of Culture from 1979 to 1987, publicly reprimanded by John Paul II in 1983, he was barred from exercising the priesthood until 2019. He died in Managua in 2020.

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