Michael (Miguel) was born in Valparaíso, Chile, and educated in England. On a small street in a poor area in the hills above Valparaíso where he lived and used to carry out social work is mural dedicated to Michael’s life. He lived and worked amongst the workers and the poor, becoming a worker priest in the Las Habas shipyards.
On March 7 2006 Michael Woodward was honored in a ceremony in Valparaíso’s Playa Ancha cemetery. A plaque on the memorial reads: “Here in a common grave, the bodies lie embraced. Other bodies, alone, lie near in the earth and the sea. One name represents them all: Miguel Woodward Yriberry, 1932-1973.”
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