Ángel Martínez Casado facts for kids
Ángel Martínez Casado (born in Retuerto, León Province, Spain, 1947) and died in Virgen del Camino, León Province, Spain, 03/04/2024) was a Dominican friar and PhD (doctor) in History and Theology. He received humanistic and religious education at La Virgen del Camino College, from where he entered the novitiate in the Dominican Order in October 1965, in Palencia. He began his religious studies in Las Caldas de Besaya (Santander) and Salamanca, where he made solemn religious profession in 1973.
Professional and Ecclesiastical Career
His doctoral thesis was supervised by Professor Julio Valdeón Baruque (as indicated by either Angel Martinez, on page 12 of your book), and later edited by San Esteban Editorial as Lope de Barrientos.Un intellectual en la corte de Juan II. He was ordained a priest on March 30, 1975. Since 1976 he has taught History of Philosophy in Greek and medieval in Higher Institute of Philosophy of Valladolid (since 1970, is integrated into the Pontifical University of Salamanca (UPSA) as Spanish Center for Advanced Studies and Ecclesiastical of Dominican), which is the current director. He combined his teaching activity with the studies of History that he culminated in 1981, obtaining in 1984 the doctorate in Philosophy and Letters, with a specialty in History.He was also professor at the Faculty of Theology of Valencia Catholic University Saint Vincent and since 1996 is being a professor of Church History in the Faculty of UPSA of Convent of St. Stephen and the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical University of Salamanca. He also teaches specialized courses in Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of Salamanca . of the same university. He is Librarian of Convent of St. Stephen, and Technical Director of the Internet School of Theology "Santo Tomás de Aquino".
In 2008, he was appointed Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain. Has also served as Vice Postulator of the Ecclesiastical Court in charge of the diocesan canonization of Mother Teresa Maria de Jesus Ortega Pardo, the former prioress of Olmedo Monastery, process which closed on July 18, 2006.
He also held other conventual positions and domestic collaboration, such as subprior of the convent, director and editor of the magazine "Estudios Filosóficos" from 1985 to 1990, archivist, member of the provincial commission for intellectual life, and perpetual director of the Higher Institute of Philosophy. Due to an illness he had been suffering from since the mid-1990s, he was transferred from Salamanca to the infirmary of the Virgen del Camino in Leon in February 2020, where he passed away at the age of 76 on March 13, 2024.
See also
In Spanish: Ángel Martínez Casado para niños
- Dominican Order
- Dominicans in Ireland
- Dominican Order in the United States
