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María Remedios del Valle was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was listed in her military records as a parda, a term formerly applied to triracial descendants of Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and West African slaves, that later became applied to people of mostly or entirely African descent. [2]
María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga was born on 16 December 1908 in Anglès, a small town in the province of Girona, in Catalonia. Remedios was named in honor of the Virgen de los Remedios ("Virgin of Remedies") as a 'remedy' for an older sister's death. She had two surviving siblings: an older brother Rodrigo, and a younger ...
Manuel Belgrano's mother was María Josefa González Islas y Casero, born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. The family was the second richest in Buenos Aires, after the Escaladas. The family was the second richest in Buenos Aires, after the Escaladas.
The land where the city is now located was originally purchased from Martín José de Altolaguirre by Francisco Ramos Mejía in 1808. Ramos Mejía was the son of a merchant from Seville, and had returned from a nine-year stay in the Upper Peru, where his business interests had met with success.
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Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios is the patron saint of Cártama, where she is said to have cured people affected by a plague epidemic in 1579. [4] The Virgin of Los Remedios is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the island of Tenerife, and the city of Cali, Colombia.
Remedios Varo (1908–1963), surrealist painter; Angeles Santos Torroella (1911–2013), surrealist painter; Antoni Clavé (1913–2005), painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer; Joan-Josep Tharrats (1918–2001), abstract artist and member of Dau al Set; Joan Brossa (1919–1998), poet, playwright, graphic designer ...
Remedios Amaya (born 1962), Spanish singer; Remedios Varo (1908–1963), Spanish-Mexican para-surrealist painter and anarchist; Alberto Remedios (1935–2016), British operatic tenor; Jeffrey Remedios, Canadian businessman, president of Universal Music Canada