Isidoro Galán

Isidoro Galán Carretero (23 December 1935 – 2 June 2025) was a Spanish priest, construction worker and trade unionist, delegate of the CC.OO trade union.^[1]

Career

Galán joined the Society of Jesus in 1951, in Aranjuez, at the age of 16, and studied Philosophy and Theology. He was ordained a priest on 15 July 1965, at the age of 30, in the Jesuit church in Madrid.^[2]

He was an active priest in Cartagena in the 1960s, after arriving in 1968. Together with Mariano González Mangada and Miguel Ángel Ondínez, he promoted the Ecclesial Communities of Base and the HOAC, and as a result he suffered Francoist repression: on 14 November 1972, along with other priests, he was arrested, beaten, imprisoned and temporarily exiled from Cartagena for organizing subversive actions.^[3]

Following these events, he joined the Dragados y Construcciones construction company, and became a union leader. He led the Murcian construction strike of 1976 in Cartagena.^[4]

Throughout his life, he showed solidarity with the Basque independence movement.^[5]

Death

Galán died on 2 June 2025, at the age of 89.^[6]

References

^ Supremo, Spain Tribunal (1878). Sentencias del Tribunal Supremo en materia criminal (in Spanish). Impr. del Ministerio de gracia y justicia.
^ JIMÉNEZ, GUILLERMO (11 July 2010). "Curas que dejaron huella". La Verdad (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2025.
^ Bastida, José Ibarra (3 June 2025). "Isidoro Galán Carretero, primer delegado comarcal de CCOO en Cartagena en la Transición, fallece a los 88 años". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2025.
^ "Isidoro Galán Carretero, primer delegado comarcal de CCOO en Cartagena en la Transición, fallece a los 88 años". CCOO Industria (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2025.
^ SL, TAI GABE DIGITALA (3 June 2025). "Muere a los 88 Isidoro Galán, solidario con los presos vascos desde Cartagena". naiz (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2025.
^ "Fallece el sacerdote diocesano Isidoro Galán Carretero | Sacerdotes". Diócesis de Cartagena (in Spanish). 4 June 2025. Retrieved 8 June 2025.

[1] Supremo, Spain Tribunal (1878). Sentencias del Tribunal Supremo en materia criminal (in Spanish). Impr. del Ministerio de gracia y justicia.

[2] JIMÉNEZ, GUILLERMO (11 July 2010). "Curas que dejaron huella". La Verdad (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2025.

[3] Bastida, José Ibarra (3 June 2025). "Isidoro Galán Carretero, primer delegado comarcal de CCOO en Cartagena en la Transición, fallece a los 88 años". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2025.

[4] "Isidoro Galán Carretero, primer delegado comarcal de CCOO en Cartagena en la Transición, fallece a los 88 años". CCOO Industria (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2025.

[5] SL, TAI GABE DIGITALA (3 June 2025). "Muere a los 88 Isidoro Galán, solidario con los presos vascos desde Cartagena". naiz (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2025.

[6] "Fallece el sacerdote diocesano Isidoro Galán Carretero | Sacerdotes". Diócesis de Cartagena (in Spanish). 4 June 2025. Retrieved 8 June 2025.

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