Salvador Miranda | |
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| Born | (1939-10-18)October 18, 1939 Havana, Cuba |
| Died | June 1, 2024(2024-06-01) (aged 84) Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Education | B.A.Biscayne College M.A.Villanova University M.S.Florida State University |
| Occupation(s) | Church historian Librarian Bibliographer |
Salvador Miranda (October 18, 1939 – June 1, 2024) was an American bibliographer, librarian and church historian.[1][2]
Miranda was born on October 18, 1939, in Havana, Cuba.[2] In 1958, he graduated from theJesuit-runColegio de Belén in Havana after which he attended the law school at theUniversity of Havana.[2] After theCuban Revolution in 1963, he moved toPuerto Rico to study humanities at theUniversity of Puerto Rico.[2] As a young Cuban exile, he was a member of the Cuban-American expeditionary force in the failedBay of Pigs invasion.[1] He then returned to school graduating with a B.A. in History and Philosophy fromBiscayne College; an M.A. in Modern European History in 1974 fromVillanova University; and an M.S. in Library and Information Science in 1976 fromFlorida State University.[2] After graduating from Florida State, he accepted a position as the Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographer at the University of Florida Libraries inGainesville.[2] In 1986, he served as assistant director for Collection Management atFlorida International University Libraries inMiami.[2] On June 30, 2001, he retired.[2]
The title of his 319-page master's thesis in history wasThe Sacred College of Cardinals in the Twentieth Century (1903-1973): Developments, Documents and Biographies[2] which he expanded to include earlier cardinals and then digitized, making it available as an online resource.[1] In appreciation of his research, BishopCipriano Calderón Polo, the founding director of the Spanish edition of the Vatican newspaper,L'Osservatore Romano and the vice president of thePontifical Commission for Latin America, whom he corresponded with for years over the history of the episcopacy, invited him to present at the first continental meeting of bishops from Latin America in 1999.[1][3]
His research and expertise has been used as a resource by various publications includingThe New York Times,[4]The Cleveland Plain Dealer,[5]Religion News Service,[6]La Stampa,[7] andThe Wall Street Journal.[8]
On 28 June 2023, Miranda posted on The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church's main page that he had been hospitalized with cardiac issues.[9] He died on June 1, 2024, at the age of 84.[10][11]
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