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FAMILY
After turning fourteen years old, he entered to the Escuela Naval Militar (Naval Military School) in Rio Santiago, where he was one of the three best high-grade point average, and still to this day the youngest graduate officer as Marine Guard in Argentine Navy history.
After those achievements and having known the Social Doctrine of the Church there was a profound conviction to lead and transform the life of workers with a humanistic perspective.
That certainty and inner conversation was his driving force to retire from the Navy and start to be a factory worker.
Enrique Ernesto Shaw, son of Argentinian Sara Tornquist and Alejandro Shaw, was born in France on February 26th 1921, in a risky pregnancy since his parents were on a business trip at the time.
Two months later the family returned to the country, but his mother died shortly after, when he was only four years old. It was in that moment when the father decided to fulfill his wife’s
desire to entrust Enrique’s religious formation to a priest of the Sacramentine Congregation and sent him to Colegio de La Salle (La Salle School) in Buenos Aires, where he was a distinguished student.