Person - Esteban Marco, Luis (1935-1995)

Esteban Marco, Luis (1935-1995)

Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Esteban Marco, Luis (1935-1995)

Fechas de existencia:

Utrilla (Arcos de Jalón, Soria, España)  1935-08-12 - Benaguasil (Valencia, España)  1995-12-22

History:

Spanish cistercian monk and investigator.

He entered the Cistercian monastery of Santa María de Huerta (OCSO) in March 1949, being the first oblate to enter the community. In March 1953, he was sent to the monastery of Viaceli (Cóbreces, Cantabria), mother house of the Hortene, to start the novitiate, getting in the habit in October of that same year. Two months later, he would return to the Soria abbey. In October 1957, he did his solemn profession, and some time later, he went to Rome to study Theology, licensing in 1963. Previously, in July 1962, he had been ordained priest. He served to his community as secretary, iller, archivist and librarian, being chosen abbot of Huerta on 16 February 1977. During his abbacy, in addition to undertaking numerous important restoration works in the monastery, he developed extensively his intellectual facet: he wrote articles about Huerta and history of the Orden; he started a book collection about the monastery called 'Biblioteca'; he organised symposia and congresses about monastic history; he visited numerous Spanish archives in order to find and reproduce documentation of Huerta; and published a luxurious edition of the Vita et miracula divi Bernardi Clarevalensis abbati, by fray Bernardo Gutierrez (1587). Finished his abbacy in 1983, he spent a year in Alloz's monastery (Navarra), and the he was sent as chaplain to the Santa María de Gratia Dei monastery in Benaguacil (Valencia). There, he passed away due to a sickness.

Context:

En 1961 acudió al Archivo Histórico Nacional en Madrid con motivo de su tema de investigación, "Monasterio de Santa María de Huerta en Soria"

Su expediente de investigador incluye: solicitud y justificante de pago de tasas para la expedición de la tarjeta de investigador. Fechado en Madrid a 23 de septiembre de 1961.

Occupations

Profesión (Es realizada por):

Religiosos

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Capellanes

Profesión (Es realizada por):

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Archiveros

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Bibliotecarios

Places

Lugar de Residencia:

Benaguasil (Valencia, España)

Lugar de Residencia:

Roma (Lacio, Italia)

Lugar de Nacimiento:

Utrilla (Arcos de Jalón, Soria, España) in 1935-08-12

Lugar de Defunción:

Benaguasil (Valencia, España) in 1995-12-22

Subjects

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Varón

Nacionalidad:

Españoles

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VIAF

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