Calle del Cardenal Marcelo Spínola

Before donning the cardinal’s purple, Marcelo Spínola practiced law in Huelva, where he earned the nickname “lawyer of the poor” for charging nothing to those who had nothing. At twenty-nine he traded the courts for the altar and was ordained a priest. His career took him to bishop of Coria and of Málaga and, from 1896, archbishop of Seville. Wherever he went he opened apprentice schools and visited prisons and hospitals, and during an epidemic he even begged in the streets to relieve the afflicted. The street crosses the Castilla neighborhood, in Chamartín, far from the Andalusian city to which his memory stayed bound.