Miguel Mañara

His father Tomás Mañara Leca y Colona had been born in Calvi.

A cause for Mañara's beatification was formally opened on 24 September 1754, granting him the title of Servant of God.

[1] In French literature Mañara was the subject of Prosper Merimée's novella Les Âmes du purgatoire (1834) and Alexandre Dumas's play Don Juan de Marana ou la chute d'un ange (1836).

In the 20th century Apollinaire also wrote about him, while the brothers Manuel and Antonio Machado produced the play Don Juan de Mañara (1927).

There is also a four-act opera with six music-frames by Henri Tomasi and a libretto adapted from Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz's play Miguel Mañara.

Bust of Mañara by José Lafita in the Hospital
Miguel Mañara reading the Rule of the Hermandad de la Caridad (1681), painting by Juan de Valdés Leal , also in the Hospital
Mañara's sword over an old treasure-chest and chair in the hospital's council chamber
Mañara's death mask