Abstract

ALVARADO SANCHEZ, Nelson Manuel. Rescue and analysis Carta a un obrero´ friar Pedro Bustos, OFM (1910-1924). Franciscanum [online]. 2023, vol.65, n.179, pp.8-8.  Epub Oct 16, 2023. ISSN 0120-1468.  https://doi.org/10.21500/01201468.5914.

The fictitious letter is the literary genre chosen by Fray Pedro Bustos, a Chilean Franciscan religious, to represent the reality of material and moral poverty of the worker and his family and to spread his critical vision of society, political parties, and the Church in Chile, in the first decades of the 20th century. In them it is possible to find the essential elements of Catholic social thought, the characterization of the proletarian family of Santiago de Chile, the examination of the causes of the poor moral and economic conditions of the workers, and the relationship between abandonment of faith and social crisis. The author wrote them in an exercise between a philosophical formation and the personal experience born of a personal and pastoral closeness with the vulnerable classes and these were published in the Franciscan magazines, among whose readers were the lay adherents to their spirituality at national level. The rescue of these is necessary because being considered a minor literary genre can go unnoticed or ignored in the various investigations on the ecclesial positions, the Chilean reality, and the state of the proletarian classes.

Keywords : Fictitious letter; Political parties; Social Catholicism; Workers world; Social question; Franciscans.

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