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Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez

Chilean Cardinal Jorge Medina Estévez (1926-2021). Biblioteca (BCN) Congreso Nacional de Chile via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0).

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Oct 4, 2021

Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez died Oct. 3 at the age of 94.

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