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Alberto Hurtado
Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga , was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker and writer, founder of the Hogar de Cristo movement. He was canonized on October 23 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his country's second saint.
Academic and Religious Formation
With his father's death in 1905 (when Hurtado was only 4), the family found itself to have significant financial difficulties, forcing his mother to start selling off the land owned by the family. Thanks to a scholarship, he managed to study at the prestigious all-boys Jesuit school of St. Ignacio, ...
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