He was the national vice-assessor of this movement in La Habana.
In his role as a Jesuit, he taught History of the Church in the Interdiocese Seminary of Santo Domingo, and he founded the Movement of the Christian Working Youth in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He lived in a number of countries in the Americas from 1947. He was a member of the Jesuit Order for thirty years. At the age of 16 he joined the Jesuit Order and was ordained a priest in 1953, in Santander, Spain.
When he was five his family moved to Ourense, and it is there where he started his first studies, attending primary school at the Saint Vincent Paul Nuns and Secondary School at the Institute Otero Pedrayo.
He was born in O Carballiño ( Ourense Province, Galicia, Spain), in 1923, into a deeply religious family (his brother was a Jesuit and his sister was a nun).
