Manuel Acuña y Malvar

Category: Priest
Birth Date: 16th April 1757 (†1st March 1845)
Birth Place: San Martiño de Salcedo (Pontevedra)
 Curriculum

He studied in Salamanca and Oviedo. In 1792, he was elected a canon in Santiago. As he was connected with the nonconformist intellectual movement of Santiago, the new archbishop made him be banished and locked in 1803 in Aniago Monastery (Valladolid). In 1809, he organised in Seville the Galician revolt against the French. He participated in the reconquest of Vigo, where he was nominated as political governor and during the Assembly of Cadiz he defended the liberal laws. With the restoration of absolutism in 1814, he was prosecuted and locked in Herbón Convent until 1920.

 Work & Activities

These are some of his most important works: La Constitución violada y mala fe guardada: o bien sea la punible, injusta, despótica, temeraria, ratera, atrevida, extravagante, cismática, ridícula, provincialista, quijotesca, intempestiva, antirreligiosa, anticonstitucional, anticanónica, antipatriótica y nula posesión de cuatro prebendas que ha dado el cabildo de Santiago en 24 de marzo de 1813, por contemporizar con el arzobispo (1813), Oficio que ha pasado el señor canónigo D. Manuel Acuña y Malvar, en 31 de marzo de 1813, al Excmo. Sr Marqués de Campo Sagrado, comandante general y jefe superior de Galicia (1813), etc.