FIUV International Federation Una Voce: Rodolfo Vargas Rubio: Requiescat in pace

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Rodolfo Vargas Rubio: Requiescat in pace

As Secretary in the FIUV General Assembly 2009

From Accion Liturgica blog (machine translation):

We have the sad news of the death of the historian Rodolfo Vargas Rubio. Many today will not know him but he was a great defender of the traditional Liturgy when in Spain it was a wasteland, with hardly any other place of celebration than the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy, on Laforja Street, in Barcelona. Where many of us were able to attend our first Tridentine Masses.

Rodolfo Vargas was a promoter of the Roma Aeterna Association, a pioneer in the defense of the Traditional Roman Rite, and a member of the Una Voce Association [editor's note: including as Secretary]. A great Latinist and connoisseur of the liturgy, he was also highly appreciated for his sympathy and generosity.

May Our Lady and Venerable Pope Pius XII, for whom Vargas felt great devotion, intercede before God Our Lord for his eternal rest.

Requiescat in Pace

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