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Burrus, Ernest

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Burrus, Ernest

August 20, 2026

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Rev. Ernest J. Burrus, a Jesuit priest and historian from El Paso, became widely recognized for his scholarship on colonial Mexico, the Southwest, and Jesuit history. Born in 1907 in El Paso and raised in Ysleta, he studied languages, was ordained in Innsbruck in 1938, later worked in Rome for the…

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