Gaspar Hernández (priest)

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Gaspar Hernández Morales (born January 6, 1798 in Lima , † July 21, 1858 in Willemstad ) was a priest, educator and politician from Peru.

Hernández began his training at the Colegio Seminario de Santo Toribio and entered the Orden de Ministros de los Enfermos o Camilos at the age of sixteen . In July 1814 he went to the monastery of Santa María de la Buena Muerte and made his profession there the following year after the novitiate. After completing his theology studies, he was ordained a priest in 1821 by Bishop Antonio Sánchez Matas and briefly taught as a professor of philosophy at the Colegio de Nuestra Sra. de la Buena Muerte and at the Seminario Conciliar in Lima.

Accused of embezzlement, he served for several years from 1821 as a military chaplain under General José Ruperto de la Serna . In 1830 he went to Puerto Rico, where, on the mediation of Bishop Pedro Gutiérrez de Cos, from 1832 to 1834 he held an apprenticeship as a professor of philosophy and mathematics at the newly founded Seminario San Ildefonso in San Juan.

After Gutiérrez de Cos' death, Hernández settled in Santo Domingo, where he worked as pastor at San Carlos extramuros (1839–43). He stood on the side of the Trinitarios , who campaigned for the independence of Puerto Rico from Haiti, and ran a philosophical class in which, among others, Pablo Duarte , Francisco del Rosario Sánchez , Juan Isidro Pérez and Pedro Alejandrino Pina participated. After Stutz of the Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer , he and Father Pedro Pamiés had to leave the island in the direction of Curaçao on the orders of Charles Rivière-Hérard .

From there he went to Venezuela and worked as a pastor in Altagracia de Orituco and from 1845 to 1848 as interim priest and vicar of La Guaira. From there he returned to Santo Domingo as pastor of La Vega. In 1851 he was elected a representative of the province of Santiago and in the same year became vice-president, in 1853 president of the House of Representatives. In this capacity he was particularly committed to promoting public education. In October 1852 he was employed as a lecturer in mathematics, surveying and cosmography at the Colegio Nacional San Buenaventura .

When Pedro Santana was elected President of the Dominican Republic for the second time in 1853, he issued a decree with which Hernández was again expelled from the country; next to him also Elías Rodríguez and Santiago Díaz de Peña . After another stay on Curaçao, he took over some parishes in Santiago de Cuba under the direction of Bishop Antonius Maria Claret and taught philosophy at the Colegio Seminario San Basilio Magno from 1854 to 1856 .

After the President Manuel de Regla Motta had lifted the deportation orders of his predecessor, Hernández returned to Santo Domingo one last time in 1857. He worked there as Vice Rector, from 1858 as Rector of the Seminario Conciliar de Santo Tomás . During Santana's coup against President Buenaventura Báez , Hernández went into exile again in Willemstad. There he spent the last weeks of his life in the house of the papal vicar Martin J. Niewindt .

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SURNAME Hernández, Gaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hernández Morales, Gaspar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian priest, educator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1858
Place of death Willemstad