Luis Ruiz Suarez

Luis Ruiz Suarez, SJ, and Cantonese language :陆毅 神父( Luk Ngai ), ( born September 21, 1913 in Gijón, Asturias, † 26 July, 2011 Macau) was a Spanish Jesuit and missionary. He was referred to as " angels of Macau ".

Life

Luis Ruiz resigned after school at the La Salle brothers in Cimadevilla 1930, the Congregation of the Society of Jesus in Salamanca at. After the dissolution and expulsion of the Jesuit order in Spain in 1932, he studied humanities and philosophy in the Belgian Marneffe. In 1937 he became head of the Jesuit College Colegio de Belén in Havana, Cuba, where Fidel Castro was one of his students.

From 1941 he worked in China, interrupted by the Second Sino-Japanese War, where he studied Chinese and theology. In 1945 he received the priesthood and was an English teacher in Anking. After the victory of Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai- shek in the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1950 and its seizure of power in 1951, he was arrested and deported to typhoid fever over Hong Kong in the portuguiesische colony of Macao. After the incorporation of Macao in the Chinese People's Republic in 1969 he stayed on illegally. He founded in 1970 Caritas Macau.

Luis Ruiz founded in 1984 the "Casa Ricci Social Service CRSS " and was until 2002 head of social service. Casa Ricci looks after leprosy villages in China, Vietnam and Myanmar and is involved in addition to the health care and economically for the affected families. In recent years, Luis Ruiz focused for dieHIV -infected persons and AIDS patients.

He was honored for his commitment with the medal of the Order of Civil Merit by the Government of Macao, the Knight's Cross of the Spanish Orden de Isabel la Católica and the Portuguese Order of Merit.