A REAL VOLUNTEER AT HEART

Going to a foreign country as a volunteer doesn´t have to necesarily have a religious purpose, and being part of a religious order not necesarily mean you have to go to a foreign country and help in any way you can or is needed.
In 1651, Antigua, then the Capital of Central America, received perhaps a volunteer that has left an amazing heritage: Pedro de Bethancourt.
Originally from the Canary Islands in Spain, came to the New World looking forward to spread the gospel, but once here, and noticing the great needs, started taking care of the ill and abandoned people that families left to die in the streets due to lack of resources to take good care of them.
From scratch, managed to build one of the best and largest hospitals for the time, feeding over 200 people.
He was named a Saint by Pope John Paul II in 2002, but that is not the only reason he is famous, since his hospital still provides food, shelter, healthcare, love and caring to hundreds of homeless children and abandoned seniors.
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