Francisco Javier Gómez Ortín, better known as "The Father Javier ', has won the First Prize of Historical Essay' Cehegín City 'with a paper entitled" History of the name' Cehegín''with which it has led to 1,000 euros in prize money.
The jury praised the huge research work that has had to its author to get historical documents, which attest to the existence of different branches dynastic people, many of them famous, who carried the name 'Cehegín'.
It has also relied heavily on the thoroughness with which the author has added details, the eye small, but important to understand this work.
Similarly, Gómez Ortín his work done in monitoring the Andalusian branch of the "Sanchez Cehegín 'with that provided by unpublished data on this name since the Middle Ages until the eighteenth century.
Francisco Javier Gómez Ortín is Franciscan monk, scholar, researcher and writer.
Professed in 1946, and ordained priest in 1953.
National Graduate School of Documentary from the National Library in Madrid in 1974.
Bachelor of Arts (Department of Romance), University of Murcia in 1966 and Doctor in the same college in 1989 with the thesis Speech northwest of Murcia.
High school teacher in religious schools and public institutes Cehegín, Cartagena and Alicante, and teacher and librarian at the Theological Institute of Murcia OFM.
Awards: The 'Special Baccalaureate' in 1960, the "Golden Apricot" in Moratalla (Murcia) in 1973 and 1976 in two literary contests, and winner in 1982 of 'National Contest in Folklore Research Murcia' .
Has published the following books: A guide marvel (Murcia 1982), Vocabulary Northwest Murcia (Murcia, Regional Editor, 1991) Murcia Northwest Folklore.
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(Murcia 1996) and verses and signs in Santa Ana Jumilla (Murcia 2002), in addition to numerous case studies of linguistic, literary, historical or artistic journals.
Collaborator and coordinator of Religion in the Encyclopedia of the Region of Murcia.
Communications has presented and published in the Proceedings of the International Congress of History of Language (I, Cáceres 1987, II, Sevilla 1990, III, Salamanca 1993), and so on.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín