Within the framework of the patron saint festivities in honor of San Cayetano, and with a Mass presided over by the Bishop of Río Cuarto (Argentina), Mons. Adolfo Uriona, the parish dedicated to the saint in that diocese will be declared a sanctuary.
The celebration will be on Wednesday, August 7 at 4:00 p.m., the date on which a large number of pilgrims arrive at the temple to leave their intentions to the patron saint of bread and work. Concelebrating will be Mons. Ricardo Araya, Bishop of Cruz del Eje, who for some years pastorally cared for the parish.
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In dialogue with AICAFather Juárez expressed his joy at the news: “We are preparing with great expectation, with great joy in the Holy Spirit.”
This year, the preparation for the feast of San Cayetano “is special because, what began as a chapel, was a parish and now will be a sanctuary,” he assured.
“On July 7 we celebrated 33 years of parish life and throughout all these years this place has been converted by the faith of the People of God of Río Cuarto, and also of the area, as a place of pilgrimage,” he highlighted.
“Every August 7 is the day of the great pilgrimage of all the faithful who, through the image of Saint Cajetan, come to meet God,” said the priest, citing the Final document of the V General Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate, held in Aparecida (Brazil) in 2007, maintained that “departing for the sanctuary is already a confession of faith, the walk is a true song of hope, and the arrival is an encounter of love”.
In an interview with LV16, the priest recalled that “the necessary precedent for a sacred place to be converted into a sanctuary is the piety, faith and devotion of the people. That is why our bishop, somewhat recognizing the entire trajectory, the life of faith in this beloved neighborhood, in this sector of the city, is going to declare the temple a new diocesan sanctuary.”
During the days of the Novena, there will be three daily Masses: one at 10:00 a.m., another at 5:00 p.m. and the last one of the day at 8:30 p.m., thinking about those who have to leave work to Be able to reach.
The history of the parish dates back to July 9, 1965, when the then bishop, Mons. Moisés Blanchoud, blessed the basal stone. Two years later, on October 7, 1967, the same prelate gave the blessing on the temple, and on the same date but in 1974 the tabernacle was blessed.
It was in 1991 that Bishop Adolfo Arana, then Bishop of Río Cuarto, erected the San Cayetano parish on what until then was a chapel of the Nuestra Señora de Luján and San Martín de Porres parish. The first parish priest was Father Rafael Arias.
It was Bishop Eduardo Martín, who governed the diocese between 2006 and 2014, when he was named Archbishop of Rosario, who in 2014 appointed Father Gustavo Juárez as parish priest of San Cayetano, who remains in office.
That same year, the project to expand the temple was approved, and at the end of 2014, within the framework of the Solemnity of Christ the King, the new tabernacle of the parish received the blessing.
In November 2015, the then Bishop of Cruz del Eje, Bishop Santiago Olivera, gave the parish a relic of the Holy Priest Brochero to be venerated there, for which in 2017 a new altar was built, which contains it inside. .
In 2019, the current bishop dedicated and consecrated the temple and the new altar of the San Cayetano parish, which preserves the relics of the Holy Priest Brochero.
Juliet Villar
I am a journalist, with a degree in communication from the National University of La Matanza in Argentina. I have work experience in non-governmental organizations. Since 2016 I have been dedicated to Catholic journalism, first at the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA) and, since 2022, as ACI Prensa correspondent for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.