Andrea Miguel de los Santos was born on July 5, 1877 in Navarro Guard son of Italian parents, Nicholas and Joseph Parente Andrea, being baptized in the parish of San Lorenzo Martir. He entered the diocesan seminary, where the May 26, 1893 he received the tonsure and minor orders. In 1898 he was appointed sub-deacon of the Church of San Francisco. Attended
then to the Colegio Pío Latino Americano in Rome where having 22, was appointed priest. In the Gregorian University and received degrees of Bachelor and Doctor. Father Federico
Grote, German who come to Argentina in 1884, he founded the Workers Circle and was Bishop of Andrea who succeeded him. In 1906 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Workers' Circle. In 1908 he founded the Federation of the Congregation of Mary Jijas. Organized a parade that started from the temple of the Church of the Merced to counter the anarchist demonstration May 8, 1910.
On 2 June of that year Bishop de Andrea gave his Patriotic Prayer in the Cathedral Metropolitan. In 1912 he was appointed Rector of the Parish Priest of St. Michael and Director of the Workers' Circle. A year later he was appointed Rector of the Catholic University and then in 1920 he was appointed Bishop of TIME.
Monsignor Andrea was presented as the preferred candidate for the archbishopric in a trio raised by the President of The Nation, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear. Pope hesitated in his appointment. This created a difficult situation between our country and the Vatican.
Then Andrea Bishop of the Archdiocese formally resigned on 8 November 1923. However, he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Government to the Vatican. In the stormy
year 1955 Bishop Miguel de Andrea and his nephew Andrea Miguel Angel Precinct were arrested in the 3rd. In June of that year were burnt the Archbishop's Palace, The San Francisco Church, Santo Domingo, San Ignacio, San Juan, La Merced, La Piedad, San Nicolás de Bari, Las Victorias, San Miguel de Archangel and the sacristy of the Cathedral. Burned no more than 80,000 bundles of documents dating from colonial times. From that moment Andrea Bishop resigned to use purple and wore mourning ornaments. Bishop Miguel de Andrea
died on June 23, 1960 at age 83. The Municipality of Salta a small square named in his honor. In Buenos Aires lleva su nombre la Escuela de Comercio N° 34 y un instituto en Colón.
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