Father Fidel Maíz
| Fidel Maíz | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 8, 1828 Arroyos y Esteros, Paraguay |
| Died | 1920 Asunción |
| Nationality | Paraguayan |
| Known for | Religion, Theology |
| Notable work | "Etapas de mi vida" |
Father Fidel Maíz (March 8, 1828 in Arroyos y Esteros, Cordillera Department) was a priest in Paraguay. He is considered one of the best speakers of his time. He also had a great writing ability, brilliant and rich, he had a great participation in the important moments of the history of his country. The figure of Maiz crosses six decades of national history.
Francisco Fidel Maíz was born from a legal and religious wedding between Juan Jose Maiz and Prudencia Acuña Francisco Fidel Maíz, had 10 brothers, from which only were left 2 at the end of Paraguayan War. Fidel Maiz learned the first letters in the school of his town, Arroyos y Esteros, later on he moved to the capital city of Asunción, so as to enter the institute of the Argentine master José Joaquin Palacios.
He was lucky to coincide with the opening of the education, which followed the death of the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, which was known to have been a dictator who closed all the educational institutions of the country. He continued his studies at the Academia Literaria, under the supervision of the master Marco Antonio Maiz, his uncle.
His oldest brother was also a priest and was ordained a priest before him, and was in charge of the church of Lambaré and Valenzuela. Francisco Fidel Maiz, once ordained priest, was in charge of the church of Arroyos y Esteros, since 1856 In 1859 he leaves this responsibility due to a request of the President of the Republic, Carlos Antonio López, to take over the position of the first dean of the Councilor Seminar. In the Seminar, he teaches Moral Theology and Canonry. One of the most interesting characteristic of his personality is that, unlike many of his contemporary and others after him, he did not need to leave the country to reach a good intellectual formation as well as a very high level culture.
Even in the solitude of the time, and with scarce cultural activities, Fidel Maiz had access to the principal thinkers of the time, some of them even opposite to the catholic, which gave strength to his thoughts. When Don Carlos Antonio López died, and once his son Francisco Solano López took over the presidency, the difficulties of Father Maiz and the new president began, because he had kept a very distant position, or at least not openly in favor to his designation.
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