People of A Limia on Galipedia: Journalists, Artists, Politicians and a Priest

This page gathers Limians with a Galipedia article who do not have an entry of their own. It is written in our own words from that text (CC BY-SA 4.0); people linked to the repression of 1936 are dealt with separately. For other biographies see Authors and artists of A Limia.

Letters, journalism and art

• Alejandro Álvarez Rodríguez (Xinzo de Limia, 1890 – 31 December 1974), journalist. Son of the procurator Efrén Álvarez, he emigrated to Argentina as a young man; on his return he edited the newspaper Juventud, was editor of El Agrario and contributed to La República. He was secretary of Baltar council and, from 1925, of Sandiás ^[1].
• Julio Carballo Enríquez (Xinzo de Limia, 9 October 1861 – Buenos Aires, 26 May 1928), lawyer and journalist. A law graduate of Santiago, in 1888 he won the chair of Administrative Law and Political Economy at the University of San José, Costa Rica. In 1891 he returned to Ourense, where he practised as a lawyer, was deputy prosecutor of the Provincial Court, joined the Republican Party and edited the weekly La República; from 1910 he lived in Buenos Aires as correspondent and editor of La Nación, linked to the Casa de Galicia and the anti-foral group A Terra ^[2].
• María Ruido (Pidre, Xinzo de Limia, 1967), visual artist, filmmaker and feminist researcher, from a working-class family. A history graduate of Santiago with a doctorate in Fine Arts from Vigo, she teaches at the University of Barcelona. She works in performance, video-action, documentary and video installation, with archive material and testimony, on imaginary labour in post-Fordist capitalism, memory and the social construction of the body ^[3].
• Cándido Paniagua Pousa (Xinzo de Limia, 10 May 1992), writer and teacher of Galician language and literature. He studied at the CEIP Rosalía de Castro and the IES Lagoa de Antela, graduated in Galician and Spanish Studies in Vigo and published O caderno de erros (Tandaia, 2018) and 48 horas (Xerais, 2020). He has received, among others, the Universidade de Vigo Short Story Prize (2020) and the Xinzo de Limia council’s Culture Prize (2023) ^[4].

Politics and institutions

• Daniel Barata Quintas (Guillamil, Rairiz de Veiga, 25 December 1943 – Ourense, 31 May 2023), education inspector. He was a deputy in the Galician Parliament (1990–2001) and Culture and Youth councillor (1990–1993), where he promoted the exhibition Galicia no Tempo and the Instituto Galego de Artes Escénicas e Musicais. He was a councillor of the Consello de Contas from 2000 and received the Silver Medal of Galicia in 1994 ^[5].
• Manuel Enríquez Villarino (d. Xinzo de Limia, November 1902), liberal and monterista, deputy in the Cortes for the district of Xinzo de Limia in 1886 and president of the Ourense Provincial Council in 1894 and 1898 ^[7].
• Nicolás Soto Rodríguez (Covelas, Nogueira de Ramuín, 1836), soldier, lawyer and politician, deputy for the district of Xinzo de Limia in 1871 and 1872 ^[8].
• Ramón Enríquez Cadórniga (Xinzo de Limia, c. 1882), judge in Ribadeo, Celanova, Ourense, Santiago and Luarca, son of the property registrar Rudesindo Enríquez ^[12].

Church, art and local history

• Cándido Lorenzo González (Laroá, Xinzo de Limia, 23 September 1925 – Brazil, 17 December 2019), Mercedarian friar and Catholic bishop. He studied in Xinzo and Sarria, was ordained in 1954 in Poio, went to Brazil in 1960, led the prelature of São Raimundo Nonato (Piauí) from 1969, was made titular bishop in 1981 and retired in 2002. Laroá named him favourite son in 1995 ^[6].
• Bartolomeu de Nosendo, a 16th-century Portuguese master mason who worked at the monastery of Xunqueira de Ambía, at the church of Santo Estevo de Sandiás (around 1520) and at the monastery of Bon Xesús de Trandeiras; the Manueline-influenced doorways betray his origin. See Convent of Bon Xesús da Limia ^[9].
• Cayetano de Parada y Pérez de Limia (Verín or Xinzo de Limia, c. 1744 – Alcabre, 1821 or 1823), mayor of Bouzas and leader in the Reconquest of Vigo in the Peninsular War; a street in Bouzas bears his name ^[10].
• Germán Novoa Enríquez (Morgade, Xinzo de Limia, 6 August 1996), footballer, centre-back for Arenteiro, with whom he won promotions from the Tercera to the Primera RFEF; he was called up by the Galician national team in 2024 ^[11].

Links

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Sources

1. «Alejandro Álvarez Rodríguez», Galipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Álvarez_Rodríguez
2. «Julio Carballo Enríquez». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Carballo_Enríquez
3. «María Ruido». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_Ruido
4. «Cándido Paniagua Pousa». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cándido_Paniagua_Pousa
5. «Daniel Barata Quintas». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Barata_Quintas
6. «Cándido Lorenzo». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cándido_Lorenzo
7. «Manuel Enríquez Villarino». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Enríquez_Villarino
8. «Nicolás Soto Rodríguez». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolás_Soto_Rodríguez
9. «Bartolomeu de Nosendo». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeu_de_Nosendo
10. «Cayetano Pérez de Limia». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayetano_Pérez_de_Limia
11. «Germán Novoa». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germán_Novoa
12. «Ramón Enríquez Cadórniga». https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramón_Enríquez_Cadórniga