Chale López

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López, Chale

Appears in Salvation in Death; (c. May 2060)^[1]

Contents 1 Personal Information 2 Description 3 Personality 4 History 5 Interesting Facts 6 References

Personal Information

• General Description: A compact and muscular man with sad, dark eyes.^[2]
• DOB: 2012
• Age: 48
• Eyes: Dark
• Address: Spanish Harlem, New York City, New York
• Occupation: Priest at St. Cristóbal's

Description

• He has the faintest of accents, an exotic sheen over rough wood^[3] and has deep, sad [sincere] eyes.^[4]
• Peabody said that he was built and called him Father Seriously Ripped.^[5]

Personality

• He says he serves; and to serve, he must believe in what some would call the abstract, like a higher power and the laws of the church.^[6]
• Eve said there is something interesting, kind of compelling, about him; she said he reminds her of Roarke.^[7]
• Eve said he's got titanium for faith.^[8]
• According to Li Morris, he is a man of unassailable faith, with a flexible mind and limitless compassion. Morris said Lopez helped with with those next difficult steps (of grief), and helped Morris accept he'd have more to take.^[9]

History

• Born in Rio Poco, Mexico ("Little River")^[10] he went into the seminary at thirty, was never married, nor has he had a cohab on record.^[11]
• He boxed for a few years professionally as a welterweight. His record included twenty-two wins, six of them by knockout.^[12] Before he became a priest, he also worked in his father's cantina.^[13]
• He was in love with a girl named Annamaria who was abducted, beaten, raped, and murdered.^[14] He planned to kill the men who had done it after they were found but she came to him in a dream and told him to go to the shrine of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos. He drew a picture of the Blessed Mother as an offering, though it had Annamaria's face, and then understood that his life was now for God.^[15]

Interesting Facts

• His father taught him to box, in part, as a way to channel youthful aggression. He works with some of the kids at the youth center and, when he can talk them into it, will box some of the adults (like Marc Tuluz).^[16]
• He came to St. Cristóbal's eight months ago, after Monsignor Cruz retired.^[17] He unknowingly poured the poisoned wine into the chalice from which 'Father Flores' drank.^[18]
• He provided Dallas with the baptismal records from his church without authorization from his superiors. He said he liked Lino and feels he can't understand the situation, or know what to do until he knows who Lino was and why he did what he did.^[19]
• He drinks black coffee and, after having some of Dallas's, said he never had coffee like that before.^[20]
• Lino's murderer confessed to him but, as it was told to him within the sanctity of the confessional, he said he cannot break his vows to tell Dallas who it was though he urged them to go to Dallas with a confession.^[21]
• After Amaryllis Coltraine was murdered, Eve said that if Morris wanted to talk to someone outside the circle, outside the job, he could talk to López (his name is written as 'Lopez' instead of 'López' in Promises in Death).^[22]

References

1. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 43
2. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 4
3. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 4
4. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 40, 49
5. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 262
6. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 40
7. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 102
8. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 265
9. ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 57
10. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 48
11. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 49
12. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 49
13. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 95
14. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 95
15. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 95, 96
16. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 41, 261
17. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 5
18. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 5
19. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 93, 94
20. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 94
21. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 262, 263
22. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 220, 221, 255