Category: Macau

Spanish Jesuit Father Luís Ruiz Suarez, who dedicated his entire life to needy people in Macau and mainland China, died on July 27 at the age of 97. Father Ruiz was a giant because of his enormous heart. His missionary work in China began in 1941. It was interrupted by the Second Sino-Japanese War, and resumed after the war ended in 1945. When the Communists took control of China in 1949, he was imprisoned briefly and expelled from the country.