His father was Capitán Julio César Giraldo Gómez, and his mother, María de Jesús Ana Joaquina Zuluaga Zuluaga. Born on 24 January 1907, in
Marinilla,
Antioquia, Colombia. He entered the
Society of Jesus at the age of 16 and was ordained four years later. He became a philosopher at the
Javeriana University, and a theologian and graduate in
ecclesiastical history at the
Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Years later he received an honorary degree in
legal sciences from
Javeriana. He handled the strings of power from his desk. Almost half a century of the country's history paraded through his office. Ministers, presidential advisors and many other high-level figures such as
Noemí Sanin and Maristela Sanín,
Rodrigo Lloreda,
Andrés Pastrana, Francisco Posada de la Peña, Juan Martín Caicedo, Fernando Carrillo, María Teresa Forero de Saade. Were trained under his tutelage
Alvaro Leyva,
Alfonso Valdivieso,
Carlos Albán, Daniel Mazuera,
Carlos Holguín Sardi, Jaime García Parra,
Augusto Ramírez Ocampo and
Julio César Turbay Junior. and Among his soul disciples were
Luis Carlos Galán, the
Samper Pizano brothers and notable lawyers from the
Pontifical Xavierian University such as
Rodrigo Noguera Laborde, Gabriel Melo Guevara,
Roberto Camacho Weberberg, Eduardo Vergara Wiesner, Jaime Alberto Guzmán Vargas, Gladys Salazar de Hidalgo, Felipe Diago Jabois, Isabel Cristina Bettin and Alicia Martínez de Suárez. Later in 1991, with the same group of lawyers HE founded The
Gimnasio Los Caobos, private school in the Locality of
Suba (Bogotá). This school is one of the very few
ISO 9001 Certified preparatory schools in Latin America. Giraldo was the President of the Organizing Committee of the I Javerianos Lawyers Congress. == Recognition ==