Father Jorge de Jesús Herrera, LC, was born in Durango, Mexico, on June 10, 1990. His name, de Jesús, comes from being consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus from the day of his birth. He is the second of seven children, the first of the males. He learned about Regnum Christi through his cousins, who were in the Legion Vocational Center, and later, when the Legionaries arrived in his city, he was one of the founders of the Instituto Cumbres Durango. There, his desire to dedicate himself to God in this religious and priestly lifestyle was born.
He entered the Legion of Christ Vocational Center in Monterrey, Mexico. He went to Spain, first to Ontaneda and then to Moncada, to continue his high school studies. In 2007, he moved to Salamanca, where he completed two years of novitiate and two years of humanistic studies. Subsequently, he studied one year of philosophy in Thornwood, United States, and then in Rome.
He carried out his apostolic practices at the Vocational Center in Rionegro, Colombia, where he was a formator for three years. He returned to Rome in 2016 to study theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum. He made his perpetual profession on August 26, 2018.
In the summer of 2019, he went to Medellín, Colombia, to work as a training instructor at the Cumbres School and in the youth section of Regnum Christi in that city. On October 17, 2020, he was ordained deacon at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Durango, Mexico. On June 12, 2021, he was ordained a priest along with three other Legionaries of Christ at the Metropolitan Basilica Cathedral of Medellín.
On December 5, 2021, a tragic car accident occurred in Tolima, Colombia, in which Fr. Jorge Herrera, LC, and three young people from Regnum Christi in Medellín lost their lives, two of whom are collaborators: Juan Diego Salazar Román, David Baena Moreno, and Steven Giraldo.
An online condolence book has been made available. Those wishing to express their thoughts to the families of the father and the young people can do so at this link: https://legionariosdecristo.org/in-memoriam-colombia/
Rest in peace!
