Education
He graduated from high school in France, where he learned French, the language of his first poems.
He graduated from high school in France, where he learned French, the language of his first poems.
He was a priest of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Betharram Congregation, main supporters of the San José School, one of the oldest and traditional schools in Asunción, cradle of numerous philosophers and national leaders. He came to Paraguay January 10, 1940, and joined the staff of the San José School, being Principal of the school between 1953 and 1959. Besides a deep evangelist labor, he developed a long and everlasting pedagogical work, especially in the teaching of Spanish language and literature.
Supported a new foundation of the Literary Academy of the San José School and settle the bases of the University Academy -that was founded first as the Literary Circle in 1946- on it, where many young people where formed in the intellectual production.
Ricardo Mazó, José Luis Appleyard, Carlos Villagra Marsal, José María Gómez Sanjurjo, Ramiro Domínguez, Gustavo Gatti and Julio César Troche were among them. He developed and intense cultural work, deploying theater plays -he shown the steps of Lope de Rueda and traductions of Molièreand writing his own plays.
He also gave conferences spreading the work of authors as Claude, García Lorca, André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Miró, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Samuel Beckett, among others In 1994, the Paraguayan government awarded him with the “Cruz de Comendador del Mérito Nacional” and the same year received the title of Honoris Causa Doctor from the National University of Asunción.
In 1997 was awarded with the “Llama del Arte que nunca se apaga” (Flame of the Art that never disappear) from the entity “Friends of the Art” of Paraguay.
That year he also celebrates his Ministerial Diamond Weddings after 60 years of evangelist labor. Dedicated to his evangelist labor, but always working as a supporter for literary meetings and mentor of many Paraguayan young literary talents, deceased in Asunción, in September 3, 2004, a few months after making truth one of his dreams: to participate in the celebrations for the centenary of the San José School. The Municipality of Asunción conferred him in this celebration (July, 2004) the condition of "Illustrate Citizen".
He formed part of the International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club, the cultural entity “Friends of the Art”, the Institute of Spanish Culture, and is member of the Paraguayan Academies of History and Language.
