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| - In November 26 the year 1994 was awarded the Cardinalate the Archbishop of Havana, Ortega Alamino Mons.Jaime by Pope John Paul II, born in Jaguey Grande, diocese and province of Matanzas, Cuba on October 18, 1936, his father was first employed at the sugar industry and later a retailer, studied elementary school Echemendia Arturo, who enrolled in an Advanced Institute of Matanzas, earned his degree in arts and sciences and after one year of college he entered the diocesan seminary of St. Albert Great run by the Fathers of the Foreign Mission of Quebec, after four years studying humanities and philosophy, was sent to study at the Seminary of the Fathers of the Foreign Missions in Quebec, Canada, returned to Cuba and was ordained priest on August 2 1964 at the Cathedral of Matanzas, Cardenas was Vicar Coadjuctor detained in labor camps for one year and then was pastor at large Jaguey, priest at the Cathedral of Matanzas, president of the Diocesan Commission for Catechesis and had a ministry with youth of the diocese, he taught at the Seminary San Carlos and San Ambrosio in Havana, in 1978 John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Pinar del Rio and in 1981 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Havana, created new parishes, 40 churches and houses rebuilt parish, founded the residence for priests, lay people think a house, and founded Caritas Cuba, also ordered 22 priests in 1988 was president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Cuba, since 1995, was Second Vice-President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) In 2001 was the fourth time President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba, has received honorary degrees from universities in Barry and St. Thomas in Florida, San Francisco, California, Providence, Rhode Island College, Boston College " Massachusetts, honorary doctorate St. John University, New York, is a member of the Congregation for the Clergy, Council of health workers, and the Commission of Latinoamerica.Era a sunny and hot day as usual on the island of Cuba, where people wear clothes and worries steamy everyday things, in Cuba there was only one cardinal before half a century ago, Bishop Arteaga, the news was made public at all levels, the Archbishop had traveled to Rome to receive the investiture ceremony and reminded the cardinal meaning of color, the blood of the martyrs of Christianity, rather than betray their faith and their God, the ordinary public consistory for the creation of new Cardinals consists of moments of the Pope read the formula of creation and solemnly proclaims the names of new cardinals, the first of which is addressed to the Holy Father on behalf of all, follow the Liturgy of the Word, the Pope's homily, the Profession of Faith and the Oath, each new cardinal then approaches the Holy Father and kneels before him to receive the cardinal's hat and the assignment of a title or Diaconia, the Pope placed the cap on the head of the new Cardinal and says among other things, " this is red as a sign of the dignity of the office of Cardinal and means that you are prepared to act with strength to the point of spilling your blood for the growth of the Christian faith, for peace and harmony among the people of God, for freedom and the extension of Holy Roman Catholic Church, "the Pope assigns each cardinal a Church of Rome " or Deacon Title " as a sign of their participation in the pastoral care of the Pope by the city, the Holy Father delivered the Bull of Creation of Cardinals, assigned Title or Diaconia and exchange the kiss of peace with the new members of the College of Cardinals, the Cardinals traded the same sign between them, the rite concludes with the prayer of the faithful praying the Our Father and the blessing final.Durante Papal Chapel The Holy Father will preside at the concelebrated the Mass with new cardinals, who delivered the cardinal's ring "sign of dignity, pastoral care and more solid union with the See of San Pedro Apostol ", for the temporal power of the Church A cardinal is a prince of the Catholic Church or the princes of the blood, and the title of Eminence residing in Rome even outside the Vatican are citizens of the same, are divided into cardinal electors, those involved in the election of Pope conclave and non- voters who are less than his age (over 80 years) are no longer in all faculties and trial to do so, all form the College of Cardinals, and together with the Roman Pontiff governing the Catholic Church which means Universal, Apostolic because it is founded on the preaching of the 12 apostles led by Saint Peter after Jesus Christ, and as the first Roman Christian Church was tolerated after persecuted by paganism and officially as a religion of the Roman Empire between 313-325 by the Emperor Constantine, that is the Christian Church met after the Great Schism by divisions of the temporal power of the Church that emerged from the Catholic Apostolic Church Greek Orthodox or Orthodox in the year 1054, which is based on the preaching of Saint Andrew as the brother of Saint Peter, the Western Schism between 1378 and 1417 by the popes in Rome they had while also Popes in Avignon, France considered Antipopes, and later the separation of the Protestant Churches of the Reformation Movement, brothers separated or evangelical, emerging with the protest of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther in 1517 with the 95 theses in Wittenberg and the Confession of Augsburg, which was divided into a part on the faith and another on the correction of abuses, are nevertheless Christianity largest religion of humanity by number of adherents to 2200 million believers in the year 2010, half of which 1 100 million are Catholics, the sixth part of humanity that in the year 2010 is estimated in a world population of something over 6800 million, the second largest group of Christians are Protestants and the Orthodox third group with 200 million members, this statistic includes Christians who call themselves No Trinity (as Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter Day Saints or Mormons) and non-denominational Christian, Christianity go together as the largest religion of humanity, followed by Islam with 1.5 thousand million members and the largest religion in separate Hinduism with 1,000 million members and Buddhism with 500 million members, then another group of religions among which is the Judaism with 18 million, remaining 2.5% of world population, atheist, and 12.5 % did not religiosa.En Cuba in 1993 began a new era with more strength of Christianity, the time of the Pastoral Letter of the College of Bishops of Cuba, "Love hopes all things " and a more active evangelization in the country is to feel, Pedro was a young student Law, than to just a year had returned to the house of the Father, God the Father, had been named in his childhood in the parish of Charity in San Rafael and Manrique, Centro Habana, there would meet other young, some who there were always others who also were in their youth, having been baptized in childhood or not, the parish of Pedro was the Parish of Sacred Heart and St. Ignatius of Loyola, that of your neighborhood, a church of 70 years, which was a of the first buildings in the urbanization of the area, a gothic building which covers an entire block, with a bell tower with its cross on top that can be seen from various parts of Havana, the entrance to the temple with a large image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and high reliefs with images of Saint Ignacio of Loyola, angels and saints, on the threshold of the words in Latin and Roman Catholic church and two capitals with the images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, followed by a beautiful coffered ceiling, The ship in its side walls filled with large windows throughout and a second level, filled with arcades all across, which are small windows of personal images of 120 saints were canonized by the Church for its merits in life, the sanctuary with a beautiful altar with an altar with pictures of the people of Israel during the pilgrimage to the land of Canaan, to the sides of the sanctuary are two altars with a mandatory picture found in all Catholic churches Cuba, the Patroness of Cuba, the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, and another altar on the left with a beautiful tabernacle with two kneeling angels, the aisles with two beautiful roses on the cruise, and the ground of all ship with fine mosaics with letters and allegorical symbols of the Holy Family, Pedro goes to the catechesis of young people to receive First Communion, the head of youth ministry in the parish, the priest Nelson Santana, physiognomic traits similar to Judas, the kiss of Judas Salzillo, a sculpture by Spanish sculptor well known among the young there is a future singer of the choir of the National Opera of Cuba, young actors extras, some young professionals, among them homosexuals, women, light, fornicators e hipocritas.En one occasion in a Holy Week, it was a dramatization of the Passion play for Easter as is common, and the character of Jesus Christ to a young actor extra turn to the role of homosexual in a brothel the novel went on national television at the time, the interesting thing is that in reality era.El parish priest Father Ignatius was a priest of the community who assumed the position of Pastor,Pedro recently went to the parish and counted in leisure time for young bloodless martyrdom meant to be a priest in a communist country like Cuba where all the scum of those neighborhoods urinating in the baptismal font at the entrance to the church or let witchcraft in the front door of the Church witchcraft known as Santeria or syncretism, Latino or African sorcery, just as Candomble in Brazil, voodoo in Haiti, the Obeh in Jamaica, and the Shamanism of the ancient Indians or other days, the late Father Federico Arvezu told him how a hundred Jesuits were expelled, him between them, at the point of gun on a ship into exile for many years, the comunist governmentAfter a year of preparation, Pedro received First Communion, was an important day in their life, he received Jesus into your heart, to live a more Christian manner, time after Pedro went to the Church of the Convent of Immaculate Concepcion, which is a great building, but in a small temple in front of the malecon habanero, and image Miraculous Virgin chairing the temple, there are nuns, the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Pedro spent there one year preparing for the sacrament of confirmation, also makes with his elderly mother who had not received prior to the Confirmation, there they teach him a prayer to prepare for death, a nice old nun is the catechist, Sister Lydia, spend days, weeks, months, and Pedro received the sacrament of Confirmation together with his elderly mother in the Cathedral of Havana in a mass ceremony where 500 people received the sacrament, presided by the Cardinal of Havana, Mons.Jaime Alamino Ortega, together with his auxiliary bishop Alfredo and vicar Salvador, which would also shortly after auxiliary bishop, was a great ceremony, beginning a new era for Peter, the commitment to the Church and Jesus Christ, was no longer a disciple, now going to be an apostle, a greater commitment to the apostolate, Pedro did any type of ministry in the Church, helping with mass acolyte and other sacraments, the reader reads in the liturgy, a missionary group of patients of St. Vincent de Paul, evangelizing mission of evangelization and any other thing that was needed.
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