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The timing of the festivals has grown apart from its original religious synchronization with the period of Lent. With National Independence Day on 27 February and the birthday of Juan Pablo Duarte, its founding father, on 26 January, the Carnival celebrations fill February regardless of the Lenten calendar.
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) [1] was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation.
The timing of the festivals has grown apart from its original religious synchronization with the period of Lent. With National Independence Day on 27 February and the birthday of Juan Pablo Duarte, its founding father, on 26 January, the Carnival celebrations fill February regardless of the Lenten calendar. [95]
Juan José Duarte Rodríguez (September 15, 1768 – November 25, 1843) was a Spanish merchant and early activist for Dominican independence. He was the father of Dominican revolutionary, Juan Pablo Duarte, who is today remembered as the Father of the Nation of the Dominican Republic.
Statues of the three founding fathers. From left to right: Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Juan Pablo Duarte and Matías Ramón Mella. La Trinitaria (Spanish: [la tɾiniˈtaɾja], The Trinity) was a secret society founded in 1838 in what today is known as Arzobispo Nouel Street, across from the "Del Carmen's Church" in the then occupied Santo Domingo, the current capital of the Dominican Republic.
Unwilling to throw the country into civil war, Juan Pablo Duarte reluctantly accepted to go into exile. The Junta, now led by President Sánchez, acting on a letter from the commander-in-chief of the department of Santiago, Mella sent Duarte to the Cibao on June 18 to intervene in the internal discord and restore peace.
Altar de la Patria, or Altar of the Homeland, is a white marble mausoleum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that houses the remains of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic: Juan Pablo Duarte, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, and Ramón Matías Mella, collectively known as Los Trinitarios.
Following the coup d'état led by Brigadier General Juan Pablo Duarte on June 9, 1844, he served as Secretary of the Central Governing Board of the Dominican Republic. [citation needed] On July 15, two days after Major General Pedro Santana had been proclaimed Supreme Chief, Perez went to the Central Board to inform it of its reorganization ...