The Carvia Bernal family and the School of Medicine -A story of freethinking and freemasonry in the Cadiz of the late nineteenth century-

Abstract

No es muy conocido que numerosos médicos gaditanos ingresaron en alguna de las muchas logias masónicas que existieron en Cádiz en el último tercio del siglo XIX. Pero menos aún ha trascendido que la familia del portero de la Facultad de Medicina, Manuel Carvia Carneiro, que llegó a ser bedel y finalmente conserje, tuviera una relación tan estrecha con la masonería gaditana, hasta tal punto que sus hijas Amalia y Ana fundaron en abril de 1895 la única logia femenina que ha existido en Cádiz.It is not well known that many doctors entered some of the many masonic lodges that existed in Cadiz in the last third of the nineteenth century. But even less has it leaked out that the family of the doorman of the Faculty of Medicine, Manuel Carvia Carneiro, who became janitor and finally concierge, had such a close relationship with the Freemasonry of Cadiz, to such an extent that his daughters Amalia and Ana founded in April 1895 the only female lodge that has ever existed in Cadiz