{"id":168757,"date":"2021-11-19T07:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T11:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=168757"},"modified":"2021-11-19T08:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:31:45","slug":"catholic-priest-jose-luis-saez-receives-heraldic-order-of-christopher-columbus-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/catholic-priest-jose-luis-saez-receives-heraldic-order-of-christopher-columbus-decoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic priest Jose Luis S\u00e1ez receives Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Luis Abinader honored Father Jos\u00e9 Luis S\u00e1ez with the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus in the rank of Commander (Decree 734-21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Jos\u00e9 Luis S\u00e1ez was born in Valencia, Spain, on 21 September 1937 and moved to Santo Domingo in 1954, where he resumed his studies to obtain a bachelor’s degree in business in 1956. He then entered the recently opened Faculty of Economics and Finance at the University of Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 30 May 1967 he was naturalized as a Dominican. In 1970 he was ordained in the country as a priest of the Society of Jesus. For almost 15 years he was a professor of cultural history at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1999, Father S\u00e1ez has been a full member of the Dominican Academy of History, where he has served as secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award on 18 November is his second from the Dominican government. On 31 March 1999, then President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez awarded him the Order of Duarte, S\u00e1nchez and Mella in the rank of Knight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After taking film courses at the UASD, S\u00e1ez won by competition the chair of Film Journalism at the School of Journalism of the same university, and was active as a professor until 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also present at the event were Antoliano Peralta, legal consultant to the Executive Branch; Culture Minister Milagros German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also present were intellectuals Miguel Reyes S\u00e1nchez, Jos\u00e9 del Castillo, Manuel Garc\u00eda Ar\u00e9valo, Mateo Morrison, Plinio Chah\u00edn, Eugenio P\u00e9rez Mont\u00e1s, Roberto Cass\u00e1, Santiago Castro Ventura, Carlos And\u00fajar Persinal, Herbert Stern, Ilonka Nacidit-Perdomo and Jos\u00e9 Enrique Delmonte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, Raymundo Gonz\u00e1lez, Sheilly N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Welner F\u00e9liz, Alberto Despradel, Juan Daniel Balc\u00e1cer, Fernando P\u00e9rez Mem\u00e9n, Ram\u00f3n Saba, Luis Scheker Ortiz, Basilio Belliard, Leiby Ng, Marivell Contreras, Luc\u00eda Amelia Cabral, Rafael Peralta Romero, Fabio Herrera Roa, Johan Bueno Polanco and Father William Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Luis Abinader honored Father Jos\u00e9 Luis S\u00e1ez with the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus in the rank of Commander (Decree 734-21). Father Jos\u00e9 Luis S\u00e1ez was born in Valencia, Spain, on 21 September 1937 and moved to Santo Domingo in 1954, where he resumed his studies to obtain a bachelor’s degree in business in … <\/p>\n

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