Guevara, Rev. Juan Gualberto b. July 12, 1882 d. November 27, 1954 Peruvian religious leader and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. A native of Villa de Vitor, near Arequipa. He studied first at the Seminary of San Jerónimo, in Arequipa, then at University of San Agustin, in the same city and finally at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome. He was ordained, on June 2, 1906 and did pastoral work in Arica until 1910 when he was expelled by Chile which claimed as its own this province. During thirty years, he worked in the Arequipa region mostly as...[Read More] (Bio by: Guy Gagnon) Basilica Cathedral of Lima, Lima, Lima, Peru
Pizarro, Francisco b. 1478 d. June 26, 1541 Spanish Conquistador and Conqueror of the Incan Empire. His conquest of the Incan Empire opened the way for Spain's colonization of most of South America. Born Francisco Pizarro Gonzalez, in Trujillo, Spain, he was the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro Rodriguez de Aguilar, a Spanish Army Infantry Captain, and Francisca Gonzalez Mateos, a woman of modest means from Trujillo. In February 1502, Pizarro sailed from Spain in a convoy of 30 ships carrying 2500 colonists to the New World. In...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson) Basilica Cathedral of Lima, Lima, Lima, Peru
Vargas Alzamora, Augusto b. November 9, 1922 d. September 4, 2000 Religious Leader. Peruvian religious leader and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. A native of Lima, he joined the Society of Jesus, at the Novitiate of St. Stanislas Kotska, in Miraflores, on March 9, 1940, Later, he studied at the Jesuit Philosophical Faculty, in San Miguel (Argentina) and in Madrid (Spain) and also at the Jesuit Theological Faculty, in Granada (Spain) and at the University of San Marcos, in Lima where he received a doctorate in education. He was ordained, on July 15...[Read More] (Bio by: Guy Gagnon) Basilica Cathedral of Lima, Lima, Lima, Peru
b. July 12, 1882 d. November 27, 1954
