History of Agua de Dios

he died on December 9 of 1895 . Later the town's inhabitants would request that his remains were returned to Colombia and now rest in the Church of God Home Water. The sequence is then in the hands of Variara who became a priest in Fontibón on April 24 of 1898 .

In 1901 , to avoid any contact between inmates in Agua de Dios and the suburbs, the city cordoned off with barbed wire and guarded by police was national and international, the latter formed by the patients suffering from leprosy. The conformation of Agua de Dios, normativities structure and turned it into an independent city with its own laws, its own currency called "kermes" prohibition of alcoholic beverages, but likewise provided for the construction of a clinic, a hospital, a subsidy of treatment called "ration", according to Act 14 of 1907.

In Water God also worked the Presentation Sisters who were with girls and daughters of leprosy leprous an association called Daughters of Mary. Some of these young people had a religious vocation, but his condition prevented them from being accepted in an ordinary community. The Variara father decided that it was appropriate to create a community with these girls and this is how the May 7th of 1905 founded the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (HHSSCCJM). The foundation in turn had a strong opposition to the person of Father Variara and new religious, some suffering from leprosy and other healthy but daughters of lepers. However, this community born in Agua de Dios in such difficult conditions, currently has a presence in several countries in Latin America , Europe and Africa .

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