The Cursillo de Cristiandad is a nearly 60-year-old lay-led Catholic renewal movement with origins on the island of Mallorca Spain whose signature event is a 72-hour short course in Christianity The Cursillo movement was inaugurated in 1944 by Eduardo Bonn n Aguil a Mallorcan Catholic layman

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