Vilaflor de Chasna-Arico: Don José Antonio de Acosta

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Various jobs have always been created around the parishes, from altar boys to ecclesiastical notaries public, including sacristans, sochanters, organists, etc., which were sometimes performed by clerics and other times by laymen. Today we are going to remember one of these men who accumulated almost all these positions in his person,

Don José Antonio de Acosta, who initially followed an ecclesiastical career, which he abandoned when he was already a tonsured clergyman, but later served in the parish of San Juan Bautista from Email Marketing List Arico the jobs of sochanter-organist, senior sacristan and ecclesiastical public notary. In addition, he was collector of the ecclesiastical tithe, associate and good man in conciliation trials, first councilor of the City Council and, as such, accidental justice of the peace of Arico.



Our biographer was born in Vilaflor de Chasna on January 26, 1754, being the son of Don Pedro Agustín de León y Acosta Gómez, a native of Arico and a native of El Hierro through his father, and Doña Catalina Rodríguez Beltrán y Rodríguez Feo, who was from Vilaflor. Four days later he was baptized in the church of San Pedro Apóstol by the cured beneficiary Don Andrés Lorenzo de Amaral, synodal examiner of the Bishopric; He was named “ Joseph Antonio ” and Lieutenant Captain Don José Hernández, from said neighborhood, acted as godfather…