Manuel Velarde

Manuel Velarde (1822-1893) was an Argentine Catholic priest, who served as Head of the Parish of Montserrat.[1] He began his ecclesiastical career during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas.[2]

Manuel Velarde Fabre
Priest of Monserrat
Iglesia de Montserrat
ChurchNuestra Señora de Montserrat
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Birth nameManuel Lorenzo Estanislao Velarde Fabre
Born1822
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died1893
Buenos Aires, Argentina
BuriedBuenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
Nationality Argentine
DenominationCatholic
OccupationReligious
ProfessionPresbyter
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Biography

Manuel Lorenzo Estanislao Velarde was born on August 10, 1822 in Buenos Aires, son of Camilo de la Vega Velarde de la Cámara and María de Belén Inés Fabre Rivero, belonging to a distinguished family. He had been baptized on September 6 of the same year by the priest Domingo Estanislao Belgrano, Chantre of Buenos Aires Cathedral.[3] His maternal grandfather, Don Agustín Fabre, was a Spanish doctor, who served in the Protomedicato del Río de la Plata.[4]

Velarde was ordained a priest for the year 1844, serving in the parish of Nuestra Señora del Socorro.[5] He was involved in the escape Uladislao Gutiérrez, presbyter of Socorro, who had had an unlawful relationship with Camila O'Gorman. At the request of the O'Gorman family, Velarde delayed informing the authorities of the departure of the city of Gutiérrez.[6]

In 1854, Velarde was chosen to occupy the parish of San José de Flores.[7] Being the priest of Flores, he had taught practices related to ecclesiastical protocols to Mariano Antonio Espinosa (archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1900).[8] Later he was parish priest of the Parish of Montserrat, being in charge of the inauguration of the new temple on September, 10, 1865.[9] During the yellow fever epidemic, Velarde integrated the Commission of Hygiene of the Parish of San Miguel.[10]

In 1865, Manuel Velarde was designated honorary Canon of the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, by decree of the then president Bartolomé Mitre.[11] He served as priest of the Parish of San Miguel from August 25, 1870, until his death on May 28, 1893.[12]

References
  1. Guía eclesiástica, Ediciones AICA
  2. Historia de la Confederación Argentina, Volume 3, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires
  3. Bautismos 1819-1829, Nuestra Señora de La Merced
  4. Cuatro curas y una mujer, Camila O´Gorman., De Arriba, Hector Daniel
  5. Historia de la Confederación Argentina:, Adolfo Saldías
  6. Vindicacion y memorias de don Antonino Reyes, Volume 1, Manuel Bilbao
  7. Buenos Aires: el barrio de Flores y sus hechos : efemérides y cronología, Angel Oscar Prignano
  8. Mons. Dr. Mariano Antonio Espinosa: primer Obispo de La Plata : 1844-1900, Editorial y Talleres Gráficos
  9. Guía de sacerdotes y parroquias de la Arquidiócesis de Buenos Aires, Arzobispado de Buenos Aires
  10. La peste histórica de 1871:, Nueva Impresora, 1949
  11. Registro nacional de la República Argentina que comprende los documentos expedidos desde 1810 hasta 1891 ..., Volume 5, República Argentina
  12. Diccionario biográfico del clero secular de Buenos Aires, Volume 2, Francisco Avellá Cháfer
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