CARDINAL AMIGO VALLEJO, POPES SPECIAL ENVOY TO PUERTO RICO

Vatican City,  (VIS) - Made public today was a Letter, written in Latin and dated 10 October, in which the Holy Father appoints Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo O.F.M., archbishop emeritus of Seville, Spain, as his special envoy to concluding celebrations for the fifth centenary of the arrival of the first bishop of Puerto Rico, Don Alonso Manso O.F.M. The event is due to take place in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 19 November.

The Cardinal will be accompanied on his mission by Msgr. Elias Salvador Morales Rodriguez, rector of the major seminary and judicial vicar of the diocese of Ponce, and Msgr. Mario Alberto Guijarro de Corzo, paster of the parish of the "Martires de Verona" in San Juan de Puerto Rico.