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His mother’s death, which occurred in 1941, caused a deep depression in Mojica. From that moment on, no applause in coveted squares, no money, no mansions, they were able to stop the radical change that would turn the famed tenor into the single Friar Jos\u00e9 de Guadalupe Mojica, able to give up all his goods and property to unconditionally serve God until his last day on earth, on September 20, 1974.<\/p>\n
In 1942 he had entered the Franciscan seminary of Cusco, Peru, where he adopted his new name, and then moved to the monastery of San Antonio de la Recoleta, where he culminated in his ordination as a priest in 1947, in the temple Maximus of San Francisco de Jes\u00fas, in the same city of Lima.<\/p>\n
However, this event did not mean the end of his career, as fame helped him raise funds for the establishment of a seminar in Arequipa. Around 1958 he decided to write the book I Sinner, in which he tells the story of his life and talks about his conversion into religious. The book served as an argument for a film where he served as an actor. Around 1969 it was the subject of a sense of homage organized by the National Institute of Fine Arts, in the capital of Mexico.<\/p>\n
Friar Jos\u00e9 de Guadalupe died, from heart problems, in absolute poverty, under the care of a deaf-mute old woman. Although the death of his mother and an appearance of Saint Teresita of Jesus gave him the final impulse towards a new life, Mojica himself recognized that, as a child, that had been his true vocation.<\/p>\n
Today, forty-six years after his tenure, it is possible to enter the immense premises of the Internet to hear him sing the songs that placed him in a privileged place of the Latin American staff in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as to enjoy a very warm encounter that, in the Convent of San Francisco, in Lima, he held in 1969 with his friend and also tenor Pedro Vargas.<\/p>\n
In this meeting, Father Mojica recalls the impact caused on Agust\u00edn Lara knowing that he would enter the religious life and the effort of the author of Granada to compose a farewell song for him.<\/p>\n -Not because I take the habits we will stop being friends, I will try to pray for you and you continue to compose those beautiful melodies for the world,” he then told him with a smile on his lips, minutes before Augustine locked himself in his room and, without sleeping all night, composed a piece that would premiere Mojica’s voice and go around the world.<\/p>\n Father Mojica reminded his friend Vargas how Augustine came to him with a roll of paper squeezed in his hand, where he had written lyrics and music, sat at the piano and, in that sweet and intimate voice he had, sang the beautiful work to him.<\/p>\n Walking through the network of networks, it is also possible to find images of Peruvian news of the time, in celluloid format, which includes the ordination of Father Mojica and the first Mass that he officiated, in the church of San Francisco de Lima, with the presence, among other important figures of Peru, of Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas de Bustamante, wife of the then president of the Republic.<\/p>\n They are small fragments of a long and fruitful existence, but they are, in short, like small pieces of a puzzle that are arming the soul of a great man, who was able to choose an expeditious and glamorous life; but he chose a spiritual life where fame, gold and money never took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Mojica\"](\"https:\/\/www.palabranueva.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mojica-210x300.jpg\")