Yanara Vivas SNTP 6961 /CNP 16770
This Wednesday, October 30, marked 21 years since the death of Monsignor Miguel Antonio Salas, “The Servant of God”, Archbishop Emeritus of Mérida, the first Eudist of Venezuela and who lived a life of holiness, which is why many people from Merida await his sanctification. .
To honor his memory, the Archdiocese of Mérida and the Archbishop Salas College held a Mass in the Santiago Apóstol Parish of La Punta, presided over by Monsignor Helizandro Terán Bermúdez, Metropolitan Archbishop of Mérida and part of the Mérida clergy.
Cardinal Baltazar Porras, who was Auxiliary Bishop of Archbishop Salas, shared a large part of his life and his teachings, remembering the departure to meet the Lord of the beloved Archbishop.
In October 2023, when Monsignor Salas celebrated 60 years of priestly ordination, he visited several parishes. But on October 21, very close to San Cristóbal, the vehicle in which he was traveling had an accident. Monsignor Salas was asleep and was thrown out of the window. The blow caused him a concussion, and he was transferred to the Central Hospital of the capital of Tachira, where he died 10 days later, on October 30.
In the Biography written by Cardinal Porras about Monsignor Miguel Antonio Salas, he narrates that “his last days were a mirror of what his existence was like, in the midst of delirium, he muttered prayers and thought about the pending commitments in his village, with the nuns and the children.”
With information from ArquiMérida Press
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