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Pedro Arrupe was a Spanish Basque Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus . Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He led the Jesuits in the implementation of the Second Vatican Council, especially with regard to a faith that does justice and preferential option for the poor.

✵ 14. November 1907 – 5. February 1991
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Pedro Arrupe Quotes

“Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.”

Pedro Arrupe

'Men for Others' http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/men-for-others.html, 1973, Valencia, Spain

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