| Item Call Number |
FP00274 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
FP00274 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - FP00274
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Gregorio Meliton Martinez y Sta. Cruz
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| General Note |
- General note - Born in Pradoluengo, Burgos, Spain, on March 10, 1875; studied Latin in Bilbao, philosophy and theology in the Burgos Seminary; finished his bachiller in Valladolid; received his Licentiate in Law at the Tribunal de la Rota; was provisor on Palencia for 12 years; and on August 24, 1862, he received the degree of doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila; became a member of the Vatican council; and for 13 years handled the church legal cases. He became Archbishop of Manila on May 29, 1862; published pastoral letters in Spanish and Tagalog lamenting and condemning the Cavite insurrection of 1872 especially the participation of the Filipino clergy; he led the families of Fathers Gomez, Burgos and Zamora in petitioning for clemency, but Governor General Rafael Izquierdo turned a deaf ear. In 1875, he resigned his position as Archbishop.
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Local Note (rlin) |
- Local note - Iltmo. Sr. Meliton Martinez y Sta. Cruz, Arzobispo de ManilaCaption Note)
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1875
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Spaniards
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1970
- Focus term - clerics
- Focus term - europeans
- Focus term - prelates
- Focus term - religious
- Focus term - secular achbishops of manila
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