Biography of toribio teodoro
Educator, economist, civic leader and the first Filipino certified public accountant.!
Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza (–) was a Peruvian academic.
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Santo Toribio Romo – in Latin, Saint Thuribius – was a humble parish priest born in the Mexican state of Jalisco who has become one of the most venerated saints among the Mexicans.
Unlike the Santa Muerte and Jesus Malverde, profiled here on Mexico Unexplained in episodes 9 and 7 respectively, Saint Toribio was a real living person who is formally recognized by the Catholic Church and was canonized by then Pope John Paul the Second in the year 2000.
Our story begins in the deserts of the American Southwest in the early 1980s.
We find a young man from Zacatecas stranded in the desert somewhere north of the US Mexico border near Mexicali. His name is Jesús Buendía Gaytán. A few days of wandering, lost, exhausted from the heat and with no water, a truck approached Jesús when he thought all hope was lost.
Out of the truck emerged a blue-eyed Mexican man in his 20s, who offered Jesús water and food and told hi