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3 unusual facts about Luis Chávez y González


Luis Chávez y González

He was parish priest in Ilobasco, San Juan Cojutepeque and the historic La Merced church in San Salvador.

He recruited Rutilio Grande into the priesthood and supported Jose Inocencio Alas who helped to introduce Liberation Theology to the country.

Chávez and Pío Romero Bosque, a future president of El Salvador, were both students of a distinguished Salvadoran master, Néstor Salamanca, in Suchitoto, where Chávez would spend his latter years.



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