Albino González Menéndez-Reigada - Córdoba. Andalucía, españa
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Ariberna
N 37° 52.489 W 004° 46.499
30S E 343889 N 4193411
Tribute to the bishop
Waymark Code: WM1890G
Location: Andalucía, Spain
Date Posted: 06/21/2023
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Alfouine
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"Monument dedicated to Bishop Fray Albino for the work he did in the Campo de la Verdad for those most in need in the postwar years.

It was inaugurated on December 14 , 1969 in the place where it is currently located, Plaza de Santa Teresa ."

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It has an sculpture in stone of the bishop sitting in a place with cltohes of a religious.

PERSON
"Albino González y Menédez Reigada (Corias, Cangas del Tineo, Asturias, Spain, January 18, 1881 – Córdoba, August 13, 1958) was a Spanish ecclesiastic and the seventh Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna and later the Bishop of the Diocese of Cordova.

Episcopate
He was named the bishop of Tenerife on December 8, 1924, by Pope Pius XI.
He was consecrated in Madrid on July 19, 1925. On August 10, 1925, he entered the diocese.

During his pontificate, on June 7, 1941, Cardinal Federico Tedeschini solemnly crowned the Image of the Virgin of Las Nieves, Patron of the Island of La Palma. He expanded the seminary building. He created the Minor seminary in 1944. He ordained 48 diocesan priests. He served the diocese for twenty years until his transfer to the Diocese of Cordova.

Politic attitude
Coinciding with Franco when he was assigned to the Canary Islands, after the civil war, in 1939, he wrote the Catecismo patriótico Español, in which he apologizes for national Catholicism, qualifies Catalan as a dialect, and promoved the catalan linguistic secessionism"

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Associated Religion(s): catholic

Statue Location: Plaza Santa Teresa

Entrance Fee: 0

Artist: Not listed

Website: Not listed

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