Alonso Manuel Escalante (24 December 1906 - 21 June 1967) was a Roman Catholic prelate and missionary, in South America.
He was then invited, with the consent of Pius XII, to return to Mexico to found, and be rector of, the Mexican Seminary of Missions.
Alonso Manuel Escalante was born in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, in 1906[1] and was the third of eleven children.
At the age of 13, after reading ‘’the life of Blessed Gabriel Perboyre’’, he decided to become a missionary and he entered Maryknoll Preparatory Seminary in 1920.
[3] In 1948, the bishops of Mexico asked Maryknoll for Escalante's help in the development of their own foreign mission society, which he accepted.
Both feel the need to keep moving, but a vagabond is driven by their own needs, while a missionary has a responsibility to spread the teachings of their faith.
"[7][8] As superior general of the Missionaries of Guadalupe, he organized and founded three missions in Japan, Korea and Kenya.