Santo Toribio´s apllication for peruvian religious heritage

Abstract

When Juan Pablo II came to Peru, his central conference for the Peruvian bishops was about the four stages
of St. Toribio: his life of holiness, his commitment in the complete education of natives, his commitment
to integration and communion and his close relationship with the papacy. The fourth are like pillars of his
mission and vocations of the Peruvian church builder. This holy father of the American Church, in words
of his first biographer Leon Pinelo: “he didn’t’ waste his time” and he began working the Church, which
he called “the new Christendom of the Indies”. Thirteen diocesan synods, three provincial councils with
his catechetical instruments such as the Trilingual Catechism (in Spanish, Quechua and Aymara) and
the Pastoral visits. Instigator of institutions such as the Santa Clara Seminary or Convent, organizations
as a new association, parishes and towns .During 25 years, they laid the basis of the current Peruvian
religious heritage. This heritage is reflected in the culture of holiness of his contemporaries such as Rose
of Lima and Martin who St. Toribio confirmed, Juan Macias, Francisco Solano and a lot of Blessed
and servants of god who he also helped. But also St. Toribio helped in the building of churches like
the Cathedral, Convents such as Santa Clara and the numerous parishes and chapels, fraternities and
doctrines, dispersed throughout all his archbishop territory.