Rubén Isidro Alonso (Padre Cacho)
Uruguayan priest who lived among the waste pickers of Montevideo
Who they were
Ordained in 1959, Rubén Isidro Alonso — Padre Cacho — went to live among the cart-pulling waste pickers on the edge of Montevideo and helped nine housing cooperatives grow out of those settlements.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Uruguayan bishops' conference lists him under Blesseds and Servants of God; the nihil obstat for his cause was granted on 3 January 2017.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.