Pope Leo XIV: Study confirms that the Pontiff has ancestors in a town in northern Spain | Vatican | Robert Prevosta Last | WORLD – El diario andino
The study commissioned by the City of Arnuero, when ‘The New York Times’ published in June that the Pope Leo XIV It has roots in the town of Isla, confirms that it descends by maternal line of this coastal town of Cantabria, in the north of Spain.
The family tree that published ‘The New York Times’, with the collaboration of American ancestor and the Cuban Geanology Club of Miami, reaches the 16th century and reveals that four great -great -grandparents of eleventh generation of generation of Robert Francis Prevost They appear as nobles in the island census.
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One of the grandchildren of his great -great grandparents was Diego de Arana Valladar, captain of the Royal Armada Espasñola who spent years fighting the privateers who tried to seize the Portuguese colonial possessions in America.
As explained to EFE on Saturday the mayor of Arnuero, José Manuel, the same, the study commissioned by the City Council «Confirm word by word» the information of the American newspaper.
The geneological research is signed by María José Lavid García Castanedo, of the Mountain Studies Center, which, in its conclusions, gives “for sure the first five generations” of ancestors.
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful when leaving after directing a Mass in the Tor Vergata neighborhood in Rome, as part of the Jubileo de la Juventud, on August 3, 2025. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte / AFP)
/Lavid He has studied the baptism games of the parish church of Los Santos Julián and Santa Basilisa de Isla And the file of the Knight of Santiago de Diego de Arana Isla, accountant in Cuba, whose dates, points out, are coincident.
Arnuero has not sent a letter to the Pope because he will wait for the new nuncio in Spain to be appointed so that it is he who moves the invitation to visit Isla to the Pontiff if he travels to the country.
Yes, the governments of Cantabria and Spain have been addressed in writing to inform them.
The Plenary Session of the City Council approved in July dedicated some recognition to the Pope on Island after the information of ‘The New York Times’, which «caught them of Sopeton,» explained the mayor, who has indicated that a possibility that is on’ The table is to put his name to the Plaza de la Iglesia de San Julián and Santa Basilisa.
