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. A famous streetwise priest, he worked with the poorest people in Uruguay, residing with them in the

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es. In 2014, the Uruguayan archbishop

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asked the Pope for the

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of Alonso.

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Canción dedicada al Padre Cacho. Compuesta e interpretada por el cantautor uruguayo Numa Moraes

Sitio web de la Organización San Vicente – Obra Padre Cacho
1929 births 1992 deaths Clergy from Montevideo Salesians of Don Bosco Poverty in Uruguay 20th-century Uruguayan Roman Catholic priests Uruguayan Servants of God Salesian Servants of God Burials at the Cementerio del Norte, Montevideo {{RC-clergy-stub