Víctor Damián Sáez Sánchez Mayor (1776–1839) was a Spanish priest and politician, canon of Sigüenza, of Toledo, bishop of Tortosa and private confessor of King Ferdinand VII.
[1] He did so with such rigor that more moderate absolutists such as Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo,[citation needed] requested the King to dismiss Sáez in the name of the powers of the Holy Alliance, the members of which coincided in considering Sáez's increasing influence over the King the main impediment to calming the waters in the country.
[citation needed] Having abandoned Madrid, with permission, due to the 1833–34 outbreak of cholera,[1] he later ignored a royal decree ordering him back to the capital and was declared an outlaw in May 1837.
[1] Stripped of his posts and honours, Sáez took refuge in Sigüenza, where he remained hidden until his death, on 3 February 1839, following a fit of apoplexy.
[1] After the end of the First Carlist War, his nephew returned to Sigüenza to give a dignified burial to the mortal remains of his uncle and Sáez was buried in Tortosa Cathedral.