His political career climaxed in 1931–1933; elected to the Congress of Deputies as a candidate of a broad local monarchist-Integrist-conservative alliance, he served one term within the Agrarian parliamentary minority.

[1] One uncertain source claims that at least one branch of his grandparents were traditionally related to Pedro Bernardo, a mountainous town on the southern slopes of Sierra de Gredos, in the Ávila province.

[13] According to some sources he double-majored and is referred to as “dos veces doctor”,[14] namely in theology and in philosophy;[15] he demonstrated interest in broad cultural spectrum and was among most brilliant students recorded at the institution.

[32] Initially little known,[33] in few years he grew to prominence and already in 1914 he was referred to as “elocuente orador”;[34] by mid-decade Gómez was taking to the pulpit during major feasts like the Palm Sunday and in presence of prestigious audience like the local ayuntamiento.

[35] In the late 1910s his position in the Burgos community was already well established; not only hailed as “orador sagrado de bien cimentada y merecida fama”,[36] on numerous occasions he had his sermons discussed in detail in local Catholic press, usually acclaimed for doctrinal competence,[37] oratory skills and educational value.

[55] In acknowledgement of his scholarly competence in 1920 he was nominated professor of theology at Seminario de San Jerónimo, the Burgos branch of Universidad Pontificia of Salamanca;[56] he later specialized in dogmatics.

[57] In the early 1920s he joined the staff of Pontificio y Real Seminario Español de S. Francisco Javier para Misiones Extranjeras, the Burgos-based papal centre which prepared candidates for missionary service.

[58] When in the mid-1910s Gómez gained local recognition as orator and theologian he started to give lectures in Catholic institutions and at one-off gatherings, initially in Burgos but soon also elsewhere, e.g. in Madrid,[59] Toledo[60] or Zaragoza.

[66] His favorite topic was St. Augustine[67] and the Augustinian doctrine,[68] though gradually he broadened his interest to arts, literature,[69] language and other manifestations of social psychology;[70] at times he accounted of his foreign voyages,[71] frequent especially in 1928-1929.

The first of such episodes occurred in 1910, when he engaged in public campaign against a so-called Ley del Candado, a law promoted by the Liberal Party and intended to prevent setup of new religious orders.

[84] Another episode took place during the late Primo de Rivera dictatorship, when Gómez penned a handful of pro-regime articles and participated in government-sponsored initiatives.

In 1928 he joined the project of erecting a monument to Cid and seized the opportunity to declare that he “consideraba un deber prestar toda clase de apoyo a la obra del Gobierno actual”.

[85] A member of the primoderiverista quasi-party Unión Patriótica, in the 1929 rally he confronted calamites and miseries of late Restoration against salutary work of the dictator; he hailed UP as a link between the Spanish people and the government.

Both “repeatedly vented their irritation at parliamentary procedure and, indeed, all things Republican”; in return they were “subjected to ceaseless interruptions and insults from left-wing deputies who regarded them as ‘troglodytes’ and ‘cave-dwellers’“.

[113] When unable to get his way overruled by republican-socialist majority, he used to make sure his “voto particular” was recorded;[114] at times he challenged the chamber speaker and accused him of tyrannical mode of presiding.

[115] As it became apparent that his efforts to block the republican constitution draft – according to Gómez socializing, anti-Catholic and aimed against the family[116] - were futile he joined a few other MPs who left the chamber in protest instead of taking part in the final voting.

[130] Prior to the 1933 electoral campaign the Carlists included him among proposed right-wing alliance candidates in Burgos,[131] but eventually they bowed to the pressure of CEDA and Gómez fell off the list.

[132] He joined Coalición Católico-Agraria Burgalesa,[133] led by José María Albiñana;[134] he narrowly missed the electoral threshold during the first round[135] and lost also in by-elections one month later.

[147] By late 1935 he explicitly and publicly embraced the Carlist identity when hailing “Dios, Patria y Rey” and “nuestro Augusto Caudillo”, the legitimist pretender Don Alfonso Carlos.