Marcelino Olaechea Loizaga (1889-1972). Un Obispo comprometido socialmente en la España de Franco
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2022
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31-05-2023
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The objective of this thesis has been to offer a first complete biography of Marcelino Olaechea Loizaga (1889-1972), Salesian and relevant Spanish prelate, deepening his work in the social field during his Valencian period and thereby completing the knowledge of the profile of the episcopate. english in the central decades of the 20th century and to be able to help us better understand the extent to which the Church, especially its hierarchy, was socially and politically compromised during the central years of Francoism.
The research carried out is of a historical type, investigating unpublished archival material and pertinent bibliography. The work plan that has been followed has been structured as follows: once the topic to be developed was identified and specified, Marcelino Olaechea y Loizaga (1889-1972), we specified three questions: Who was this person? What work did you carry out in the social field during your Valencian episcopate? What was your political position in Franco's times? It began by collecting the pertinent and clarifying data (heuristics), they were contrasted (hermeneutics) to build a story that answered these questions and, finally, it was written.
The thesis comes to conclude, supported by the exposed documentation, that Olaechea was an important character at all levels, especially social and political, who contributed decisively, with his twenty years of activities and multiple social initiatives in Valencia, to build and prepare the society and the Valencian Church to its subsequent development in the educational field, in attention to social poverty and in the world of work, thus offering continuity to previous and subsequent Valencian social Catholicism.