Carlos Aldunate Lyon (16 May 1916 – 18 July 2018) was a Chilean Catholic Jesuit priest, teacher, writer, and promoter of the

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in Chile, as well as one of the teachers of

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Biography

He was the son of Carlos Aldunate Errázuriz and Adriana Lyon Lynch; He was the grandson of the president of the Chilean Conservative Party, Carlos Aldunate Solar, and brother of the Jesuit priest

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. He studied in Jesuit schools in England and Chile. He entered the

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in the city of

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and was ordained a priest in

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in 1944. In 1948 he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the

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. He was rector of the seminary of the Jesuits in Chile and the Jesuit colleges in

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, Antofagasta, and Osorno. He was rector of the Universidad del Norte between 1966 and 1969, and director of the Casa de Ejercicios Loyola. He also served as a professor at the

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, the

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and the Universidad del Norte. He performed exorcisms, and since 1975 he was dedicated to giving retreats and spirituality courses in Chile and abroad. In 1960, the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio (today Pope Francis), in his period of formation towards the priesthood, spent a season in Chile, where Aldunate was the

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. He was the main initiator of the movement of the Charismatic Renewal in Chile, in the early 1970s. He died on July 18, 2018, aged 102.

Works

* ''Buscando salud''. * ''Camino de carismas''. * ''Carisma, fe y sanación''. * ''Carismas, ciencia y espíritus''. * ''Comiendo con Jesús''. * ''El camino de transformación espiritual y sicológica''. * ''El cristiano ante lo paranormal''. * ''El demonio, doctrina y práctica católica''. * ''El discernimiento''. * ''El Espíritu Santo nos guía, la iglesia católica''. * ''Encuentro con Dios''. * ''La oración carismática''. * ''Mi muerte: decisión de vida''. * ''Taller de biblia''. * ''Texto modernizado le los ejercicios espirituales de san Ignacio''. * ''Transformación espiritual y sicológica''. * ''Vivamos nuestra confirmación''. * ''Vivamos nuestra misa''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aldunate Lyon, Carlos 1916 births 2018 deaths 20th-century Chilean Jesuits 21st-century Chilean Jesuits Université catholique de Louvain alumni Pontifical Catholic University of Chile faculty Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso faculty Chilean centenarians Men centenarians People from Santiago