Leona Vicario

Maria de la Soledad Camila Leona Vicario Fernández de San Salvador and Montiel de Quintana Roo (b. Mexico City , Mexico , the 10 of April of 1789 † Mexico City , Mexico , the 21 of August of 1842 ) was born within a wealthy Creole family. Bereft of both parents at the age of eighteen, why was the care of his uncle Agustin Fernandez de San Salvador, which also served as executor .

By this time he met Andrés Quintana Roo , law clerk who worked in the office of his uncle. Both were lovers, and Andrew asked Leona hand, obtaining the refusal of his uncle, by the difference in ideologies. This motivated Leone to leave home to join Quintana Roo in participating in the insurgency. Vicario moved to the town of Tacuba , where he formed a group of women who supported the cause of independence.

Leona Vicario with his own fortune financed the insurgency. He served as courier for the rebels, who served as a spy in Mexico City - along with others in a secret organization called the Guadalupe - until he was imprisoned on January 13th of 1813 to be discovered their participation in independence conspiracies. She was sentenced to be confined in the convent of Bethlehem in the Mochas, Mexico City. In May 1813, three insurgents disguised colonial army officers helped her escape route to Tlalpujahua , Michoacán , where he eventually married Andres Quintana Roo.

Although Leona Vicario, Quintana Roo her husband and their newborn daughter Genevieve were captured by the Royalist troops in 1818 , were later released, by granting pardons and exile to Spain.

Leona Vicario died in Mexico City on 21 of August of 1842 . Meritorious and sweet declared Mother of the Nation on the 25th of the month and year was the only woman in Mexico that has been offered a state funeral. His remains rested, first in the Pantheon of Santa Paula, later, on May 28, 1900 were taken along with her husband Andrés Quintana Roo, the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons of the Panteón Civil de Dolores , until his transfer to Column of Independence in 1925 . On May 30, 2010, were transferred to the Museo Nacional de Historia (Castillo de Chapultepec) for preservation, analysis and authentication. Subsequently, on 15 August of that year, were taken to the National Palace to be placed in the National Gallery as part of the exhibition Mexico 200 years, the Building of the Fatherland. His name is inscribed in gold letters on the Wall of Honor San Lázaro Legislative Palace , seat of Congress . Similarly, his name has been been engraved in letters of gold in the Congress of the state of Quintana Roo in Chetumal.