Marcelo Spinola y Maestre

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Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
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His Most Reverend Eminence Blessed Marcelo Rafael José María de los Dolores Hilario Cardinal Spinola y Maestre (14 January 1835 - 20 January 1906) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Archbishop of Seville.

Marcelo Spínola y Maestre was born at 6 a.m. on the island of San Fernando, Spain. His parents were Juan Spínola y Osorno, marquis of Spínola and Antonia Maestre y Osorno; they had eight children, of which four died in infancy. He was baptized the following day in the military parish of San Fernando by the military chaplain of the second battalion of the Real Cuerpo de Artillería de la Marina. His last name is also listed as Espínola.

[edit] Education

He did his initial studies in the school of San Fernando, directed by priests from 1843-1845; then at the Colegio Santo Tomás in Cádiz, 1845-1846 where he studied Latin, Spanish and French grammar and basic philosophy. He then went to the school of Motril, where the father had been transferred from 1846-1847. He went on to the school in Granada, 1847-1848 where he studied physics, chemistry and natural history. He went on to study at the University of Valencia from 1849-1852 and the University of Seville, graduating on the 29 June 1856.

[edit] Early life

He opened a law office in Huelva, offering free services to the poor. He moved to Sanlúcar de Barrameda when his father was transferred to that city as chief of the port. He decided to follow his sacerdotal vocation with the counsel of Canon Diego Herrero y Espinosa de los Monteros and began to study theology at home. He received the ecclesiastical tonsure on May 29, 1863. He received the diaconate on February 20, 1864.

[edit] Priesthood

He was ordained on 21 March 1864. He did pastoral work in the archdiocese of Seville from 1864 in various parishes until 1880.

[edit] Episcopate

He was appointed titular bishop of Milos and appointed auxiliary bishop of Sevilla by Pope Leo XIII on 16 December 1880. He was transferred to the diocese of Coria on 10 November 1884. He was transferred to the diocese of Málaga on 10 June 1886. He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Sevilla on 2 December 1895. He served as a Senator of the Spanish kingdom from 1891 to 1894, and from 1898 until his death.

[edit] Cardinalate and Death

He was created cardinal priest by Pope Pius X in the consistory of 11 December 1905. Never received a titular church.He did in 1906, at noon in Sevilla. On January 24, 1913, his remains were transferred to a new mausoleum built in the chapel of Dolores in the same cathedral.

He was beatified on 29 March 1987 by Pope John Paul II.