Marcelo González Martín

See also: González, Martín

Mgr Marcelo González Martín born the January 16th 1918 and dead the August 25th 2004 is a Spanish cardinal . Wire of a small shopkeeper of Valladolid, it began its studies from theology at the pontifical University of Comillas at the 17 years age. Ordered priest in 1941, it named dogmatic lecturer of theology to Valladolid. It accepted its évêché first, that of Astorga, in 1961. Its promition of coadjutor of the archbishop's palace of Barcelona came five years later of which it took the succession in 1967. This nomination supremely displeased to the Catholics Catalonia who would have to prefer one as of theirs at this station. There will remain five years in Barcelona before becoming archbishop of Tolède and primacy of Spain in 1973. This same year will vera it to raise with crimson cardinalice by the pope Paul VI. Evangelist, it made recruitment of new priests and opening of several seminars his priorities. The archdiocese of Tolède was also the first in Spain to obtain its own radiophonic network. It was also that which celebrated the funerary ones of the Franco general in 1975. It took share with the conclaves which élirent the two popes in 1978. During all its mandate, Mgr González will be a savage partisan of preserving morality, being opposed to the democratic constitution of its country then that one omitted there to register there the sovereignty of God on the Spanish kingdom and who, according to him, opened the door at worst the vices, of which legalization of the divorce and with the birth control. It made the cuffs in 1983, while refusing to offer the communion to the grand-daughter of Franco whose divorce made of her an adulteress. It took its retirement in 1995.

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