The ashes of Spanish priest, Vicente Rubio now rest at his beloved Convento de los Dominicos in the Colonial City. Rubio spent 12 years as parish priest of the Santo Tomás Aquino Church in Santo Domingo of the 50 years he lived in the Dominican Republic.
During this time, he became one of the most meticulous historical researchers of the colonial city. His research led to the changing of the date of the foundation of Santo Domingo from 5 August 1496 to 5 August 1498.
Rubio is also credited with his work as a professor at the state UASD university, his contributions to the founding of the Madre y Maestra Catholic University (today PUCMM), the Calasanz private catholic school, the Normal public high school and the Santo Tomás de Aquino Seminary.
As reported in Diario Libre, Rubio’s research through documents deposited in the General Archives of the Indies in Sevilla, Spain; the National Library in Paris and the Secret Archives of the Vatican enabled him to meticulously reconstruct a timeline of the European occupation of the American territories.
Rubio was born in 1923 in Salamanca and died in 2006 in Navarra, Spain.
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Diario Libre
Diario Libre
8 January 2018
