Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal
Cardenal in 2008
Born	Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (1925-01-20)20 January 1925 Granada, Nicaragua
Died	1 March 2020(2020-03-01) (aged 95) Managua, Nicaragua
Occupations	Poet liberation theologian
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]