He died bishop of Chiapas Samuel Ruitz restless years. E 'dead at around 86 years exiled in Mexico City, with a commitment not to disturb the bishops who had taken their place.
not dead killed on the altar as Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, but too many times tried to kill him and Communion and Liberation promoted in its San Cristobal de Las Casas (Chiapas) conventions to which the children illustrated, the negative theological Ruitz adaptations to Indian culture (always eager boys ...).
I learn from Maurizio Chierici, Ruitz who had arrived in Chiapas in 1960 and was a wealthy conservative family. The teaching of the Council had told him the humility necessary to penetrate the indigenous world. Mission complicated by the need to "defend the peasants from selfishness of those who continue to exploit land and labor." For a small period
mingled among the powerful. Twelve military garrison to protect the expropriation Chiapas in Mexico City decided in favor of officials who age or political mishaps forced to step aside. The federal system combines them small holdings of small farmers forced to impoverish silence.
"In the first pastoral visit - told in a meeting Ruitz - I slept in nice homes, soft bed: the landlords knew to be kind. And organized parties where I met notables and mandarins of state. Then I discovered that the food was bought with money of the farmers have to pay to honor the pastor. And I decided to spend the night in their cabins. many things you learn to ask questions rather than deliver answers. Understand before explaining .
Gradually my culture has penetrated the Mayan culture and also my way of being Bishop has been updated. The principles of the doctrine remain firm, but how to read the scriptures found with different intonations.
I had come to evangelize indigenous and indifference by the natives have been evangelized. "
did not like the big landowners, because - they said - "Inside Out defends the farmers," gave birth to eight thousand catechetical groups in which he had to articulate the Church's doctrine in indigenous culture, "an extraordinary experience - he said - that has welcomed my spirit and open my love ", where" people have learned to compare, village by village, the spirit of the gospel and sorrows of life " (Groups that the new bishop broke up after the installation).
He was extraordinary mediator in the conflict between the Zapatista militias and government forces between 1994 and 1998. Role that he is still recognized by the President of Mexico Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa "He left a great man. Substance of the mediation if the Chiapas has been pacified "and by Subcomandante Marcos, who has expressed his dismay, after a silence that lasted two years.
In Italy I have seen few news event: perhaps not news to us who theorizes that "understanding is best to explain."
Stefano Gentili
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