Los Angeles cathedral displays photo exhibit of Cesar Chavez

Published: 2004-04-05

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles is displaying a photo exhibit through May 12 of Cesar Chavez, a lifelong Catholic and founder of the United Farm Workers, who died 11 years ago. The exhibit, "Cesar Chavez: His Soul and His Spirit," features photography by Victor Aleman, editor of Vida Nueva, the Spanish-language newspaper of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Aleman's collection spans the many years he spent covering Chavez and the farm labor movement when he was managing editor of El Malcriado, a United Farm Workers publication, and when he co-founded the first farmworker radio station, KUFW. This exhibit was requested by Hispanic priests of the Los Angeles Archdiocese to "underscore the popular religiosity that defined Chavez as a contemporary yet traditional Catholic," said Father Lorenzo Miranda, pastor of St. Louis of France Church in La Puente.

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