Death of young priest causes sorrow in Puerto Plata
Father Victor Martinez Cabrera, SDB, was 29 and had been ordained a deacon in Mexico in 2011
Diario Libre
PUERTO PLATA. The Salesian family and the residents of Puerto Plata suffered deep sadness and pain with the traffic death of Father Victor Martinez Cabrera. Father Martinez was traveling from Jarabacoa to Puerto Plata to offer his first Mass after being ordained last Saturday.
The Ordination of Martinez Cabrera, the day before his death, was held in the parish of Mary, Help of Christians, in Jarabacoa, and was officiated by the Bishop of Puerto Plata, Julio Cesar Corniel Amaro.
Corniel Amaro told Diario Libre that the dead priest came back to the country several days ago for his ordination, after spending four years of study in Mexico, where on 18 June 2011 he was ordained a deacon. He belonged to the Antilles Province of the Salesian Order of St John Bosco.
The accident happened on the Jarabacoa Highway just after the curve with the shrine to the Virgen de la Altagracia. Just before noon, the Mistubishi Montero (G046925) driven by Manuel Jerez, the husband of Petra Jimenez, 56, they aunt of the priest, who also perished in the accident, went the road and over the cliff.
The remains of Father Martinez Cabrera are on view at the church of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, in the Conani barrio, where he was to have offered his first Mass at 5:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon, and where he will be buried today at 11:00 a.m.
Bishop Corniel Amaro said, "we are deeply saddened by this irreparable loss."
Two seriously injured
Also injured very seriously in the accident were the Mexican Veronica Nuñez Acero, who is receiving medical attention at the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez Regional University Hospital in Santiago, where she was diagnosed with severe traumas and the young woman Anny Patricia Jerez, 26, who was transferred by her parents from the Luis Morillo King Hospital in La Vega to a medical center in Santo Domingo.
Martinez Cabrera was from Puerto Plata and the other victims lived in Santo Domingo with the exception of the Mexican. They had all come to celebrate the religious event.
The rescue operation of the bodies took the rescue units about an hour and a half.
The bodies of the aunt of the deceased priest and her husband were transferred to Santo Domingo where they lived.
The Ordination of Martinez Cabrera, the day before his death, was held in the parish of Mary, Help of Christians, in Jarabacoa, and was officiated by the Bishop of Puerto Plata, Julio Cesar Corniel Amaro.
Corniel Amaro told Diario Libre that the dead priest came back to the country several days ago for his ordination, after spending four years of study in Mexico, where on 18 June 2011 he was ordained a deacon. He belonged to the Antilles Province of the Salesian Order of St John Bosco.
The accident happened on the Jarabacoa Highway just after the curve with the shrine to the Virgen de la Altagracia. Just before noon, the Mistubishi Montero (G046925) driven by Manuel Jerez, the husband of Petra Jimenez, 56, they aunt of the priest, who also perished in the accident, went the road and over the cliff.
The remains of Father Martinez Cabrera are on view at the church of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, in the Conani barrio, where he was to have offered his first Mass at 5:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon, and where he will be buried today at 11:00 a.m.
Bishop Corniel Amaro said, "we are deeply saddened by this irreparable loss."
Two seriously injured
Also injured very seriously in the accident were the Mexican Veronica Nuñez Acero, who is receiving medical attention at the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez Regional University Hospital in Santiago, where she was diagnosed with severe traumas and the young woman Anny Patricia Jerez, 26, who was transferred by her parents from the Luis Morillo King Hospital in La Vega to a medical center in Santo Domingo.
Martinez Cabrera was from Puerto Plata and the other victims lived in Santo Domingo with the exception of the Mexican. They had all come to celebrate the religious event.
The rescue operation of the bodies took the rescue units about an hour and a half.
The bodies of the aunt of the deceased priest and her husband were transferred to Santo Domingo where they lived.
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