Resumen

GRIGNANI, Mario L. En pro de la Religión y de la dignidad humana: Las fuentes chilenas de la encíclica «Lacrimabili statu Indorum» de Pío X y la solicitud pastoral de la Santa Sede. Teol. vida [online]. 2013, vol.54, n.2, pp.339-374. ISSN 0049-3449.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0049-34492013000200007.

The pastoral preoccupation of Pope Pious X (1903-1914) caused the Holy See to interest herself about the un baptized aborigines of the Latin American continent. Having received news from Amazonia informing on the injustice, the atrocities and the exploitation that entire indigenous populations were suffering there at the beginnings of XX century, the pontiff put the pontifical diplomacy in motion and sent a special delegate to gather information that would allow the study of the situation preparing the papal intervention in defense of the aborigines, that consisted in the Encyclical Letter Lacrimabili statu indorum of 1912. In the article, it is given account of the encyclical's inedited sources of Chilean origin, the correspondence between the Holy See and the Internuncio in Chile, and the richest and largest source of information about the indigenous populations and their life, the missionaries' labor and the difficulties found in the territories of the thence-called Apostolic Prefecture of the Araucania, is presented.

Palabras clave : Pious X; Lacrimabili statu indorum Encyclical; Evangelization and defense of Chilean aborigines; Holy See and Internuciature in Chile.

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