Ernesto Cardinal, poet and revolutionary priest died

03/01/2020 - 19:07

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Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal died this Sunday in Managua due to health complications, relatives reported. He was 95 years old.

Bosco Centeno, a close friend of Cardinal and a member of the Solentiname Island community in the south of the country, told The Associated Press that the priest had been hospitalized a couple of days ago in a capital hospital for a heart problem.

The author of Epigrama s and Cosmic Canticle , among a vast poetic work, celebrated his 95th birthday on January 25 announcing that he was preparing a new book. Two days later he was hospitalized urgently in a hospital, where he stayed for about two weeks.

Religion and poetry Militancy and the exercise of a public office. The extensive (immense) social and cultural work, the encounter with the circuits of power but - fundamentally - with the most needy sectors. Theologian and philosopher. Sculptor and revolutionary. Diver from the depths of the soul. Ernesto Cardenal's life covers more than nine decades, passionate, intense.

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