Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, Pope Francis' confessor, has died at the age of 98
The Capuchin friar will lie in state at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Nueva Pompeya. Bishop García Cuerva will preside over the funeral Mass on Wednesday, July 2.
Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, Pope Francis' confessor, has died at the age of 98. Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, OFMCap, died at the age of 98.
Capuchin friar Luis Pascual Dri, OFMCap, died this Monday evening, June 30, at the age of 98. His remains will lie in state at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Nueva Pompeya, where a Mass will be celebrated today at 6:00 p.m. Cardinal Dri's farewell service will conclude tomorrow, Wednesday, July 2, with the Eucharist at 9:00 a.m. presided over by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Monsignor Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva.
The cardinal from Entre Ríos was created a cardinal at the age of 96 by Pope Francis in the consistory of September 30, 2023.
"With the certainty of so much good accomplished by Father Dri in our Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, we accompany his religious family and all his loved ones in this moment of profound sorrow, but at the same time of hope in the Lord. We pray for his eternal rest," the Buenos Aires Archdiocese announced in a statement on Tuesday.
Since retiring in 2007, he lived in Buenos Aires, at the shrine and convent of Our Lady of Pompeii. There, he served as confessor to Jorge Mario Bergoglio during his time as Archbishop of Buenos Aires and was one of the priests the Argentine pontiff often held up as an example of a good confessor and priest.
About Father Luis Dri
Father Luis Pascual Dri was born in Federación, Entre Ríos province (Argentina), on April 17, 1927, into a family in which all but one of his children consecrated themselves to God in religious life.
He entered the Capuchin Seminary in January 1938, when he was only 11 years old, and there he completed his primary and secondary education. He entered the novitiate in the Nuevo París neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay. He took the Capuchin habit on February 21, 1945. In 1949, he made his perpetual profession. On March 29, 1952, he was ordained a priest in the cathedral of Montevideo.
In 1953, he served as Director of the San Francisco de Carrasco Minor Seminary. In 1955, he served as director of the Seraphic Seminary of Villa Gobernador Gálvez, Argentina. In 1959, he served as novice master at San Francisco de Carrasco.
In 1961, he specialized in Europe as a novice trainer. In 1962, he began his mission as an educator at the Secco Illa School and High School in Uruguay, until 1974. He later served as parish priest in Empalme and Colonia Nicolich. In 1976, he served as novice master in the city of Minas, Uruguay. In early 1983, he was assigned to the parish of San Enrique in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, province of Santa Fe. In 1987, he was appointed pastor of Santa María de la Ayuda, in El Cerro, Montevideo. In early 2000, he was transferred as pastor to the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in Buenos Aires, where he remained for three years. He was then appointed pastor in Mar del Plata. In 2007, he returned to the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii.
Until his death, he continued to serve the Lord from the confessional, where he spent several hours each day administering the sacrament of reconciliation.
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