Ernesto Cardenal | |
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![]() Cardenal in 2008 | |
Born | Ernesto Cardenal Martínez 20 January 1925 |
Died | 1 March 2020 | (aged 95)
Occupations | |
Years active | 1954–2020 |
Known for | Nicaraguan cultural figure |
Notable work | The Gospel in Solentiname |
Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. He was prohibited from administering the sacraments in 1984 by Pope John Paul II, but rehabilitated by Pope Francis in 2019.[1]
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