Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo: from the extension of worship to Patron of the Latin-American Episcopate

Study and publication of Lima's Archbishop Archive

Abstract

In the Archiepiscopal Archive of Lima we find unpublished correspondence among several Latin American archbishops as well as bishops with Farfán, the archbishop of Lima. In 1938, the prelate of Lima writes to his colleagues to invite them to raise their pleads to Pope Pius XI in order to obtain the extension of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo”™s liturgical Office and Mass to the universal Church; such a collegial Episcopal initiative will result in the saint”™s title as Patron of Latin American Episcopate in 1983. The present work is based in the proper method of historical research and is compounded of introduction, documentary material and its respective content as well as the initiative remote origin. The aforementioned letters are published at the end of the conclusions.