RUIZ 



MANUEL RUIZ Y RODRIGUEZ 



Ecclesiastic; author; Bish- 

 op of Pinar del Rio, 



Manuel Ruiz y Rodriguez was born 

 in Corralillo, Province of Santa Clara, on 

 the eleventh of December, 1874. He gained 

 his early education in Havana where he 

 entered the Seminary in 1887 and continued 

 until he graduated as Bachelor of Theology. 

 Later he went to the United States and 

 continued his studies in the Catholic Uni- 

 versity of America, at Washington, D. C, 

 where he obtained the degree of Licentiate 

 in Theology. He was enabled to take all 

 his courses of study by the generosity of 

 Father Manuel Gonzalez Cuervo. 



In 1897 he was ordained and in 1900 he 

 was sent as chaplain to the teachers who 

 went to Boston in that year. 



During his career in the church the 



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