Próspero_María_Alarcón_y_Sánchez_de_la_Barquera

Próspero Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera

Próspero Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera

Mexican prelate

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alarcón and the second or maternal family name is Sánchez de la Barquera.

Archbishop Próspero María Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera (1827–1908) was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church.[1] As bishop of Mexico City, he was a leader of the Mexican Church and was inspired by Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum.[1] He viewed the entrance of the Knights of Columbus into Mexico as evidence of the revival of lay Catholicism in Mexico.[1] Alarcon was a native of Mexico.

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  1. [1]
    Kauffman, Christopher J. (1982). Faith and Fraternalism: The History of the Knights of Columbus, 1882–1982. Harper and Row. p. 119-120. ISBN 978-0-06-014940-6.



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