Marcial Maciel

✶March 10, 1920

†January 30, 2008

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About their life

Marcial Maciel Degollado was a Mexican Catholic priest and sex offender. Maciel founded the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi movement. He was general director of the Legion from 1941 to 2005. Throughout most of his career, he was respected within the church as "the greatest fundraiser of the modern Roman Catholic church" and as a prolific recruiter of new seminarians.

Mexican priest and founder of the Legion of Christ (1920-2008)

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Biography from the article Marcial Maciel on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.