He taught at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, where Fr. Peter later got his master's degree and where our son Ben is currently in graduate school.
He was even in Buffalo once to speak at the University. (We have been living in Buffalo the past fifteen years.) He became very ill and was hospitalized at Sisters of Mercy Hospital. Since he had no health insurance, he couldn't pay the hospital bill. The sisters very kindly sent him home and he sent them some money later. Fr. Peter told Fr. Andres that he had just visited someone at Sisters Hospital the day before we departed for Guatemala.
At one time when he was still a Roman Catholic priest he was the rector of a prosperous Hispanic parish in Oakland, California, which is where Fr. Peter was born. Fr. Andres left this very comfortable life to return to Guatemala out of love for his native land and especially for the campesinos (poor country people).
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