Feast August 18
Saint Alberto Hurtado
Religious founder, patron of Chile · Feast August 18
Biography
Alberto Hurtado, SJ, popularly known as Padre Hurtado, was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944.
Feast day
August 18
Patronage
Chile
poor people
street children
social workers
is also known as a class patron in Xavier School
Birth date
1901-01-22
Death date
1952-08-18
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
October 23, 2005
Canonized by
Pope Benedict XVI
Feast month
8
Wikidata qid
Q554150
Feast day of month
18