page_title: Jesús Evaristo Casariego Fernández-Noriega
section_title: Family and youth
hierarchical_section_title: Jesús Evaristo Casariego Fernández-Noriega / Family and youth
caption_attribution_description: Luarca in Asturies, Spain
context_page_description: Jesús Evaristo Díaz-Casariego y Fernández-Noriega was a Spanish writer and publisher, popular especially during the early and mid-Francoism. Among some 60 books and booklets he wrote most are popular and semi-scientific historiographic works, though he was known chiefly as a novelist, especially as the author of Con la vida hicieron fuego. In the early 1940s he managed a vehemently militant Francoist daily El Alcazár, yet in his youth and older age he was active as a Carlist. Today he is considered the author of second-rate literature, occasionally recognized as expert on Asturian culture and history.
context_section_description: The best known of Casariego's ancestors was an admiral who in the late 16th century served as governor of Florida. The family got very branched in course of the following centuries, yet none of its members rose to similar honors; one of its arms, the Casariegos, have always been related to Western Asturias. The paternal grandfather of Jesús Evaristo, Evaristo Díaz-Casariego y López-Acevedo (1849-1930), served in the navy; he held various posts in Spain and overseas and fought in the Spanish–American War. Though not exactly a writer he developed some knack for letters and published a number of navy-related manuals. He married Carmen de Pazos y Rodríguez-Varela; the couple had only one child, Jesús Díaz-Casariego Pazos, born in Aviles. He opted for a civilian career and practiced as a dentist, first in Luarca and then in Gijón. In 1913 he married Ramona Fernandez Noriega from Tineo, daughter to a local fiscal municipal and former indiano. The couple settled in Luarca and had 6 children, Jesús Evaristo born as the oldest one.
  As a child Jesús Evaristo was brought up mostly by his paternal grandparents, who pursued a very traditional education model; as a mature man he later applauded them for childhood "con estilo antigue y virtuoso en el santo temor de Dios y en fidelidad constante a los grandes ideas de mi raza". He spent early years in Luarca and Tineo, and obtained bachillerato in an unnamed institution in Tineo. At unspecified time in the late 1920s he enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oviedo; he graduated in the early 1930s in Madrid. Though educated to be a lawyer, during his academic years Casariego was tempted by letters, especially that apart from his grandfather also other of his ancestors and some distant relatives tried their hand in literature. The young Jesús Evaristo started to follow the Filosofía y Letras curriculum in Madrid; in the mid-1930s he also studied history in Germany. Already in 1929 he started contributing to the local Asturian daily Región, in the early 1930s to Madrid-based La Nación and El Siglo Futuro, and other periodicals.
  In 1935 Casariego married María Paz Aguillaume Cadavieco, granddaughter to a Frenchman who in the late 19th century arrived in Asturias building a railway network. His son and Casariego's father-in-law Manuel Aguillaume Valdes held various post office managerial jobs in Asturias; a militant free-thinker, socialist and UGT activist, he was promoted by the Republican administration holding high postal jobs in Oviedo and Toledo, but charged with 13 crimes allegedly committed during the Civil War, he was later trialed and eventually executed during early Francoism. Jesús Evaristo and María Paz settled in Madrid, they had 4 children, all of them daughters: Carmen, María Paz, Margarita and Julia. None of them became a public figure, though three were active in culture contributing to belles-letters, film and historiography.
caption: Luarca
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