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Manizales (Agenzia Fides) – Father Carlos Gonzalez, 47, who was seriously wounded on the evening of May 4 by two young men who wanted to steal his car in Manizales (about 200 km from Bogotá), died the morning of Monday, May 7, in the hospital where had been admitted (see Fides 05/06/2010). The funeral will be held in Medellin. Father Carlos Gonzalez was the dean of the San Rafael Technical Institute, since 2008, in Manizales. On the evening of May 4, leaving the institution, he was approached by two young people. On his refusal to hand over his car, he was hit by some thirty stab wounds. After being kidnapped by the attackers and taken to a rural area of Manizales, near the road leading to Bogota, he was finally abandoned, wounded. The police, after identifying the priest's car and after a chase of several hours through the center of Manizales, were finally able to arrest the offenders in an area of the town of Villamarista, in the neighborhood of Cervantes. Physicians at the San Marcel Clinic, where the priest was brought, considered it a miracle that the priest was still alive because of the high number of wounds that were inflicted with a knife. The Tertiary Capuchins of Our Lady of Sorrows (called “Amigoniani”) are a religious community of Franciscan origins founded by Fray Luis Amigo, a Capuchin Bishop on April 12, 1889 in Valencia, Spain. They are present in four continents. In America, as well as in Colombia, they are in Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, United States, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 08/05/2010)
