Manuel Gálvez
Early years
Early years
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Gálvez, a member of one of the leading patrician families of [Entre Ríos Province](/wiki/Entre_R%C3%ADos_Province "Entre Ríos Province"), was educated by the [Jesuits](/wiki/Jesuits "Jesuits") before attending the [University of Buenos Aires](/wiki/University_of_Buenos_Aires "University of Buenos Aires"), graduating in 1904 with a law degree.[Philip Rees](/wiki/Philip_Rees "Philip Rees"), *[Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890](/wiki/Biographical_Dictionary_of_the_Extreme_Right_Since_1890 "Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890")*, Simon \& Schuster, 1990, p. 144 He was employed as a schools inspector from 1906 to 1931\.

His early political ideas were somewhat fluid. At university he had helped to found a highly traditionalist literary review called *Ideas* but soon after graduation he was involved in [liberalism](/wiki/Liberalism "Liberalism") before becoming captivated by the [Spanish](/wiki/Spain "Spain") [Generation of '98](/wiki/Generation_of_%2798 "Generation of '98"). As such along with the likes of [Ricardo Rojas](/wiki/Ricardo_Rojas_%28writer%29 "Ricardo Rojas (writer)") he became part of a [Hispanidad](/wiki/Hispanidad "Hispanidad") movement within Argentine literature that sought closer cultural ties with [Spain](/wiki/Spain "Spain").Nicolas Shumway, *The Invention of Argentina*, 1999, p. 139

By widely reading the Hispanidad authors and examining their works for a specifically Argentine audience in his own writing Gálvez has been credited for ensuring the spread of the ideology amongst the country's nationalist intellectuals.Callahan, p. 15 He also emphasised the centrality of the [Roman Catholic Church](/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church "Roman Catholic Church") to Argentine identity.Callahan, p. 55


What role did the Roman Catholic Church play in Argentine identity, according to Gálvez?