Eustaquio Ilundáin y Esteban

Eustaquio Cardinal Ilundáin y Esteban ( born September 20, 1862 in Pamplona, † August 10, 1937 in Seville) was Archbishop of Seville.

Life

He entered young into the seminary in Pamplona, earned his doctorate in theology at the seminary of Toledo, received on April 10, 1886 in Pamplona and was ordained a priest incardinated in the clergy of the diocese of Pamplona. Esteban worked as a teacher at the seminary in Pamplona 1886-1891. From 1901 to 1904 he was rector of the Seminary of Segovia and Archpriest of the Cathedral of Segovia. Pius X appointed him on 14 November 1904 Bishop of Orense. The Bishop of Vitoria José Cadena y Eleta, gave him on 13 March 1905 in the chapel of the Virgen del Camino, parish church of San Saturnino, Pamplona, ​​episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were José López Mendoza y García OESA, bishop of Pamplona and José Maria Salvador y Barrera, Bishop of Tarazona.

In the period 1907-1908 he was in Senado ( in its own right on behalf of the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela ). On 16 December 1920 he was appointed Archbishop of Seville. Pius XI. took him on 30 March 1925 as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Lorenzo in Panisperna to the College of Cardinals. In the 17 years of his tenure as Archbishop of Seville he fell partly into trouble in connection with the situation in the Spanish Republic and overcome the discrepancies between church and state.

His relationship with the brotherhoods of Semana Santa was complicated. He forbade the singing of the Saeta, since this was presented by professional flamenco singer and was not an expression of piety, so for him. He also forbade the presence of women in processions, limited their number to a maximum of 40, although their presence at the estonia Penitencia was an ingrained habit. It also set strict rules about unjustified stop during the procession of brotherhoods.

On February 1, 1929, he confronted the residents of La Macarena, a neighborhood of Seville, with its decision, Leoncio Martínez Sánchez Bouri to Hermano Mayor ( leader ) of the Hermandad de la Esperanza Macarena to appoint. The candidate had to withdraw objections, but he insisted to appoint him, but ultimately he could not. Other politicians such as Seville's Diego Martínez Barrio of Republicans, with whom he met on several occasions, saw in him a man of mediation and with which it was easier to make arrangements to rectify the ratio of between Church and State. In the cathedral of Seville, he is buried.