# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlos-manuel-rodriguez-santiago
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:51:30.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlos-manuel-rodriguez-santiago"
name: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago"
slug: "carlos-manuel-rodriguez-santiago"
description: "Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as \"Blessed Charlie\", was a Catholic catechist and liturgist who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 29, 2001. He is the first Puerto Rican and the first Caribbean-born layperson in history to be beatified."
tagline: "Beatified Puerto Rican (1918-1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catedral_de_San_Juan_Bautista_de_Puerto_Rico_-_DSC06864_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1918-11-22"
deathDate: "1963-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.08
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.583805333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "كارلوس مانويل رودريجيز سانتياجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Emanuel_Cecilio_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Karol Emanuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Santiago"
    title: "Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5042332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump