Araujo Salis, Eugenio di

Born on November 8, 1920 in a prominent family: his father, Kelshu Dantash Salis, was a judge in the Supreme Court of Brazil , his mother - Joseph de Araujo Salis. He was baptized in the parish church of Akari, on his birthday. Eugeniu received a humanistic education as a teenager and entered the junior seminary in Natal in 1936, graduated from the main seminary in Fortaleza , where he studied in 1937-1946. He was ordained a priest on November 21, 1943 by Bishop of Natal Marcolino Esmeraldo, Suja Dantash; spent the next decade in pastoral work (1943-1954).

He became the titular bishop of Tibiki and auxiliary bishop of Natal on June 1, 1954 (at the age of 33, he was the youngest bishop of Brazil ). The ordination was made on August 15, 1954 by José de Medeiroz Delgado - the Archbishop of San Luis do Maranjo, who was assisted by Eliseu Simoesh Mendes - Bishop of Mossoro and Jose Adelino Dantosh - Bishop of Caicco. Apostolic administrator sede plena Natal from January 6, 1962 to July 6, 1964. Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of San Salvador da Bahia from July 6, 1964 to October 29, 1968.

Participated in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965. He became archbishop of San Salvador da Bahia on October 29, 1968 and was elevated to the cardinal priests on April 28, 1969.

During the military dictatorship, Araujo Salis began working closely with the military junta, which ruled Brazil since 1964. He became the main figure in a bilateral commission in which church leaders met in secret with leaders of the regime Emilio Garrastazu Medisi to legitimize Catholicism in contexts that were not approved the most within the Church - this was considered during the most repressive period of Brazil's military dictatorship. Since Araujo Salis became Archbishop of San Sebastian do Rio de Janeiro in 1971, being a theologically extremely conservative prelate , he protested against many human rights violations in Brazil during the reign of the military junta.

The Araujo Salis participated in the Conclaves of August and October 1978, and his work supporting those who were tortured by the regime during this period was only recently noted by Brazilian historians. After the fall of the military dictatorship and the curbing of theological dissent by Pope John Paul II , Araujo Salis became the Church's most prominent voice against what he saw as a deviation from Catholic moral teaching. In the 1990s, he made a lot of efforts to become a cultural leader in this struggle: he opposed the traditional carnival in Rio de Janeiro with a “festival of prayers” in which he saw opposition to the trends of sexual libertism in modern Brazil .

After the death of Pope John Paul II , he became the oldest cardinal in the Church of Rome by consecration, and although, at 84, he did not have the right to vote at the Conclave 2005 , he played an important role in the pre- Conclave discussions. He supervised most of the memorial masses (there were 9) of John Paul II during the Novemdiales period (nine days of mourning for the deceased pope) as a cardinal protopresbyter (although he did not officially hold this post, this post was held by Cardinal Su Hwan Kim ). He lost the right to participate in the Conclave on November 8, 2000.

Since February 16, 2009 - Cardinal Protopresbyter .

On November 8, 2010, the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro celebrated the 90th anniversary of the cardinal, who was then the last surviving cardinal erected on the Consistory on April 28, 1969, that is, before the entry into force of the modern form of the Mass promulgated by Pope Paul VI constitution Missale Romanum .

While at rest, he still participated in pastoral activities. As of March 2011, Cardinal Salis was still writing weekly articles on faith and morality, published in O Globo , and he is often seen serving Mass on Sundays and other holy days in the parish church of Our Lady of Peace in Ipanema . This parish church is adjacent to the Church building owned by the Church, where Cardinal Salis serves.

In May 2011, he stopped publishing his weekly articles in the newspaper O Globo (he wrote weekly articles in the newspaper for 40 years, since his intronization as archbishop of Rio de Janeiro in 1971) and, on his recommendation, the archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Orani Juan Tempesta , was invited by the owners of the newspaper to continue writing religious articles and agreed to take on this task. His last article was published on April 25, 2011.

He died at 10:30, on Monday, July 9, 2012, from a myocardial infarction , in a dream, at the Residence of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the vicinity of the city of Sumare . The embalmed body of the cardinal was delivered to the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of San Sebastian do Rio de Janeiro , where it was exhibited before July 11. On July 11, the cardinal's funeral took place, he was buried in the crypt of the cathedral.

After the death of Cardinal Stefan, Su Hwan Kim remained the only cardinal elevated to cardinal dignity on the Consistory of April 28, 1969, and on April 28, 2009 he celebrated the 40th anniversary of his stay in Cardinal.

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