Ernesto Cardenal
Nicaraguan Catholic priest
Died when: 95 years 41 days (1141 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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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.
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