The death of Colonel Manuel Zanartu Opazo in 1871, generated deep discomfort in the clergy of the city of Concepcion, because he died without the moral parameters arranged by the Catholic Church in Chile at the end of the 19th century. Despite the prohibitions from the Bishop Jose Hipolito Salas to authorize the funeral of Zanartu in the municipal cemetery of Concepcion, liberal groups and citizens upset with the attitude of the Bishop. They introduce hard in to the cemetery for the funeral in memory of Colonel Zanartu. The process of secularization in Chile would be that as a result, it was developing openings and inclusions of new moral manifestations which had the idea of the "citizen" as the principal concerns of the Chilean State, as a social major boost of modern ideas in Chile.