Mariano Olier

Mariano Olier (1752-1816) was an Argentine Catholic priest, who had an outstanding performance in the fight against the smallpox epidemic, that hit the city of Buenos Aires towards the end of the 18th century.[1]

Mariano Vicente Olier García
Priest in the
ChurchBuenos Aires Cathedral
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Birth nameMariano Vicente Joseph Ignacio Olier Garcia
BornJuly 25, 1752
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of Peru
DiedDecember 27, 1816
Buenos Aires, United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata
BuriedBasílica de San Francisco
NationalityArgentine
DenominationCatholic
OccupationReligious
ProfessionPresbyter
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Biography

Mariano Vicente Joseph Ignacio Olier García was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Matheo Olier and Nicolaza Garcia de la Huerta, belonging to a distinguished family.[2] His grandfather, Sebastian de Olier y Sopuerta, had possessed a title of nobility who was granted him by the King of Spain.[3] The Olier family belonged to a family of noble knights from Sigüenza in the province of Guadalajara.[4]

Mariano Olier had an outstanding performance in the fight against smallpox epidemic of 1778.[5] In 1794 he made a petition addressed to His Majesty the King Charles IV, requesting to be granted a Chaplaincy in the Indies.[6]

He maintained a relationship of friendship with the family of Juan Canaverys and Bernarda Catalina de Esparza, being godfather of one of his children Juan Miguel del Espíritu Santo Canaverys Jugluns, baptized on June 7, 1778.[7]

References
  1. Congreso Internacional de Historia de América: actas / Academia Nacional de la Historia, Part 6, La Academia, 1982, 1982
  2. Boletín, Volume 16, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 1933
  3. Acuerdos del extinguido Cabildo de Buenos Aires, Volumen 27, P. E. Coni e hijos, 1931
  4. Nobilario de Segovia, Volumen 1, Jesús Larios Martín, 1956
  5. Documentos para la historia del Virreinato del Río de la Plata, Compañía sud-americana de billetes de banco, 1912
  6. Catálogo de documentos del Archivo de Indias en Sevilla, Francisco Centeno, 1911
  7. Bautismos 1775-1791, Nuestra Señora de La Merced
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