Okey, I know. It's strange that I, an unbeliever
person, think that a religious figure it's the
greatest Chilean, but I preferred to talk on him than talk on
a Chilean musician or a politician.
Alberto Hurtado
was a Chilean Jesuit priest, founder of Hogar de Cristo; he
is officially a saint of the Catholic Church since 2005. I choose him
because he did a lot of things related to help the neediest. When he was young
he was always worried about the topic; he wanted to bring the youth and the
poor closer to the church. Later, he did his most important deed when in 1994 laid
the foundation stone for the construction of the principal place of the Hogar
de Cristo.
If Alberto Hurtado was still alive I would like to ask
him about his opinion about actual problems, like the education and the problem
with the Mapuches, I think that would be very interesting.
I don´t know very much about this person, but once I
watched a biographic documental about him when I was younger and I think that
marked me very much in my way of thinking, even I’m not a Christian or a
Catholic anymore.
A thing I remember about that documental is that
Alberto Hurtado always saw Jesus in every vagabond he helped, and once he
really helped Jesus or something like that, it was so long time I see that documental
I don’t remember it very well xD.