For five decades, Bother Miguel Pajares devoted his life to helping the needy in Africa.
He was working at the San Jose hospital in Monrovia, helping care for patients sick with Ebola, when he too became infected.
With his health rapidly deteriorating he was flown in a specially modiifed aircraft to Madrid last Thursday for treatment.
He's believed to have been given an experimental serum, called ZMapp - one of only three patients to have received it. The other two are Americans now being treated in Atlanta.
But for Brother Pajares, it was not enough. He died on Tuesday.
Even so the World Health Organisation's xxxx xxxxx says such treatments, while largely untested, have shown promise and should be made available to the west African countries where Ebola is running rampant.
SOUNDBITE) (English) WHO ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL MARIE-PAULE KIENY SAYING:
"There was unanimous agreement among the experts that the special circumstances of this Ebola
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