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The Government of Puerto Rico decreed a day of mourning in honor of the historian and Jesuit Fernando Picó who died yesterday at his home in Río Piedras. This was informed today by the interim governor, Luis G. Rivera Marín, in the name of the governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares.

According to a statement from La Fortaleza, tomorrow, Thursday, June 29, 2017, the flags will wave at half-mast in all public offices, on which day funeral funeral will be held.

"As interim governor and on behalf of Governor Rosselló Nevares, we express our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of this illustrious Puerto Rican who has left such a mark in all the lives he touched. Father Picó stood out for his dedication to the less fortunate and left us a valuable legacy when it comes to studying and investigating violence in Puerto Rico, "said Rivera Marín.

In the case of the municipality of San Juan, Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz decreed three days of mourning.

Dr. Picó was born in Santurce on August 15, 1941. He began his primary studies at San Ignacio College and then moved to the United States to pursue a baccalaureate at Spring Hill College.

He also studied at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his Ph.D. in History in 1970. His religious leanings led him to join the Jesuit order and become a priest.

For more than 40 years, the professor also visited the General Archive of Puerto Rico from where he developed an important research and dissemination of the historical-documentary collection of the Island.

Although the statement of La Fortaleza ignores his facet of professor, since 1972 the historian served as an instructor at the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPRRP).

In fact, this Friday at the UPRRP roundabout, the highest honors will be given to a distinguished professor at the time of his death to the historian.

Jorge Ferrer, director of the Bioethics Institute Eugenio María de Hostos of the Medical Sciences Campus of the UPR, said that the funeral ceremonies of Picó will be held on Thursday at the San Ignacio College in Río Piedras. Then, on Friday, it is expected to perform a mass in the church of said school. According to Ferrer, both the wake and the Mass will be open to the general public.