Víctor Sanabria Martínez

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Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez (born January 17, 1899 in San Rafael de Oreamuno near Cartago , Costa Rica; † June 8, 1952 in San José ) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San José in Costa Rica from 1940 to 1952 . He is considered the most important among the bishops of Costa Rica in the first half of the 20th century.

Life

Víctor Sanabria Martínez was born the youngest of seven children of Juana Martínez Brenes and Zenón Sanabria Quirós. He attended elementary school in Cartago, then went to the Colegio Seminario, which is run by the Society of St. Apostle Paul was presided over and Seminario Mayor in San José. The most famous teachers included Padre Guillermo Hennicken, Padre Juan Koch and Padre Dr. José Ohlemüller. In 1918 Martínez was ordained a priest by Juan Gaspar Stork Werth.

In the same year he was sent by Werth to Rome as a subdeacon to become a deacon. Two years later, on October 9, 1921, Martínez was ordained a priest, a few months after Rafael Castro Jiménez was ordained Archbishop of San José. In Rome, on June 13, 1921, at the Pontifical Gregorian University , he submitted a doctoral thesis on canon law , which was awarded summa cum laude . When he returned to Costa Rica, he acted as an advisor to the community of San Nicolás de Tolentino, which now houses the Cathedral of Cartago. Later he was in charge of the community of San Ignacio de Acosta .

In the parish of San José, Martínez was appointed canon and was then administrator and chancellor of the local apostolic nunciature . In 1935 he was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of San José by Rafael Castro Jiménez . Three years later he was first appointed Bishop of Alajuela and then ordained. After the death of Rafael Castro Jiménez on March 7, 1940, he received from Pius XII. as part of a promotion to the bishopric of San José.

Episcopal term

The government of Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia once again allowed church educational institutions.

The labor and social legislation of the Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia government, which was based on a coalition of the Vanguardia Popular led by Manuel Mora Valverde and the Partido Republicano Nacional , led by Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia in Parliament, is thanks to Sabrina.

The tragic civil war in 1948 ended this coalition and Sanabrina was one of the masterminds of the Junta Fundadora de la Segunda República . During the civil war, the army remained neutral, while the police led by the Ministro de Gobernación y Policía, Fernando Valverde Vega fought for the Partido Liberación Nacional . The Partido Liberación Nacional won and the army was abolished by a constitution.

He created the Seminario Menor and gave impulses for Catholic Action . On July 31, 1950, he founded Radio Fides , which began broadcasting on July 25, 1952.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Ricardo Blanco Segura: Monseñor Sanabria. Apuntes biográficos . Editorial Costa Rica, San José 1962 (2nd, expanded edition 1971).
  • Gustavo Adolfo Soto Valverde: El magisterio pastoral de Monseñor Víctor Sanabria Martínez. Enquiridión del magisterio pastoral del segundo arzobispo de San José de Costa Rica . Conferencia Episcopal de Costa Rica, San José 1998, ISBN 9968-9745-0-1 .
  • Armando Alfaro (ed.): Mons. Dr. Don Víctor Sanabria Martínez, 1899–1952 . Nuestra Tierra Editorial, San José 2002.
  • José Francisco Rosales Blandino: Los laicos en el magisterio eclesiológico de Monseñor Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez arzobispo de San José de Costa Rica (1940–1952) . Diss., Pontificia Studiorum Universitas a Sancto Thoma Aquinate in Urbe , 2004.

References

  1. ^ Es : Vanguardia Popular
  2. ^ Es : Partido Republicano Nacional
  3. ^ Es : Partido Liberación Nacional

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laura María Rivera Figueroa: Arzobispo Dr. Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez: Paladin de la justicia social y de la paz costarricense . Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica (Departamento de Servicios Parlamentarios), San José de Costa Rica 1998, p. 15.
  2. ^ Time , Feb. 14, 1944, Dangerous Election
  3. ↑ Karen Zubris Biesanz, Richard Biesanz Ticos: culture and social change in Costa Rica , Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999, 307 S., S. 29th
  4. ↑ Margaret Tyler Mitchell, Meg Tyler Mitchell, Scott Pentzer, Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook , ABC-CLIO, 2008, 367 pp., 81.
  5. ^ Time , Apr. 19, 1948, Commissar in San José
predecessor Office successor
Rafael Otón Castro y Jiménez Archbishop of San José
1940–1952 		Rubén Odio y Herrera
personal data
SURNAME Sanabria Martínez, Víctor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanabria Martínez, Víctor Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION second Archbishop of San José
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH San Raffaele de Oreamuno, Cartago , Costa Rica
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1952
Place of death San Jose