Abílio Garcia de Carvalho

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Abílio Garcia de Carvalho

Abílio Garcia de Carvalho (born July 18, 1890 in Mouquim , † January 31, 1941 in Póvoa de Varzim ) was a Portuguese doctor and politician.

Life

Carvalho was born the son of José Gomes da Costa Carvalho and Carolina Arminda Pereira Garcia in Mouquim, a parish in the district of Vila Nova de Famalicão . At the age of eight, the family moved to Calendário , another municipality, where his father founded the Reguladora watch factory , the oldest watch factory on the Iberian Peninsula and now the only remaining one in the country.

Carvalho attended the seminary in Guimarães and has since developed into a fanatical Catholic . He joined the Claretian Order , to which he remained closely associated throughout his life.

In 1908 he left the seminary and first attended high school in Braga and then in Porto (Liceu D. Manuel II). In 1912 he went to the University of Lisbon to study medicine , but moved to the University of Porto after the first semester . There he joined the religious right and supported the right-wing conservative and anti-republican movements in the First Portuguese Republic, which had existed since 1910 . So he became a founding member of the local chapter in Porto of the right-wing conservative student group Centro Académico da Democracia Cristã ( Portuguese for: Academic Center of Christian Democracy). There he met the later dictator António de Oliveira Salazar , who was also a member of the movement.

Carvalho graduated from medical school in 1916. After Portugal entered the First World War , he was stationed in France as a doctor for the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps, but quickly returned to Portugal for health reasons. In 1917 he married Maria Amélia Leite da Cunha in Arco de Baúlhe , where he initially practiced as a doctor before he was transferred to Barcelos in 1918 in connection with the Spanish flu pandemic, which was rampant across Europe . In 1919 he moved to Póvoa de Varzim , where he worked as a doctor in schools in the city.

He founded the scout movement in Póvoa de Varzim, for which he received a state award. In the 20s and 30s, when he became an ardent supporter of the clerical-fascist dictatorship of the Estado Novos , he then drew attention to himself with publications and lecture tours in which he propagated connections between medicine and religion. He was also the doctor of Alexandrina Maria da Costa and was instrumental in spreading the cult of the mystic .

From February 19, 1937 to January 18, 1940 he was mayor of Póvoa de Varzim and stood out in particular with charities such as soup kitchens and milk distribution. In 1940 the regime made him governor of the Angra do Heroísmo district , on the Azores archipelago , which was not yet autonomous at the time and which had gained strategic importance in connection with Portuguese neutrality in World War II . However, he fell ill with cancer and therefore returned to Póvoa de Varzim after a short time, where he died on January 31, 1941.

A street was named after him in Póvoa de Varzim.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Abílio Garcia de Carvalho on the website of the municipal library of Póvoa de Varzim, accessed on September 6, 2015
  2. ↑ Dr. Abílio de Carvalho on the Alexandrina Maria da Costa website, accessed September 6, 2015
  3. ↑ The Rua Doutor Garcia Carvalho www.portugalio.pt road and Yellow pages, accessed on September 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Carvalho, Abílio Garcia de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Mouquim , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1941
Place of death Póvoa de Varzim , Portugal